diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e4cb0ffb2..28e58f2be 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
all: c
+devall: c install doc
+# TODO: the install target exists to put most-recent mlr executable in the
+# path to be picked up by the mlr-execs in the docs dir. better would be to
+# export PATH here with ./c at its head.
c: .always
make -C c top
doc: .always
diff --git a/doc/build.html b/doc/build.html
index cd208080b..d26f4cc75 100644
--- a/doc/build.html
+++ b/doc/build.html
@@ -109,10 +109,21 @@ and Darwin (MacOS Yosemite). I also use valgrind for detection of memory leaks and
runtime memory-access errors.
-
Dependencies: In addition to GCC, the standard C
-library, and lex (all of which are part of the Linux/Darwin
-distributions), Miller uses the following dependencies which
-are included within the Miller source tree:
+External dependencies:
+
+ gcc (or presumably other compilers; please open an issue or send me a pull request if you have information for me
+about other 21st-century compilers)
+ The standard C library
+ flex
+
+
+As well, this documentation pageset is built using Poki:
+docs here,
+source code here.
+
+Internal dependencies:
+These are included within the Miller source tree and do not
+need to be separately installed (and in fact any separate installation will not be picked up in the Miller build):
-Lastly, this documentation pageset is built using Poki:
-docs here,
-source code here.
-
Testing: Miller uses MinUnit unit-test for key
-classes including lrec_t. The remaining coverage (which is
-exhaustive) is regression coverage of Miller using all data-transform options
-and all I/O-format pairs.
+classes including lrec_t. The remaining coverage (which aims to be
+exhaustive, although this is a work in progress) is regression coverage of
+Miller using all data-transform options and all I/O-format pairs.
+
+License: Two-clause BSD license
+
+https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/master/LICENSE.txt.
diff --git a/doc/content-for-build.html b/doc/content-for-build.html
index 4ed2fe304..a20ac455d 100644
--- a/doc/content-for-build.html
+++ b/doc/content-for-build.html
@@ -15,10 +15,21 @@ and Darwin (MacOS Yosemite). I also use valgrind for detection of memory leaks and
runtime memory-access errors.
-Dependencies: In addition to GCC, the standard C
-library, and lex (all of which are part of the Linux/Darwin
-distributions), Miller uses the following dependencies which
-are included within the Miller source tree:
+External dependencies:
+
+ gcc (or presumably other compilers; please open an issue or send me a pull request if you have information for me
+about other 21st-century compilers)
+ The standard C library
+ flex
+
+
+As well, this documentation pageset is built using Poki:
+docs here,
+source code here.
+
+Internal dependencies:
+These are included within the Miller source tree and do not
+need to be separately installed (and in fact any separate installation will not be picked up in the Miller build):
-Lastly, this documentation pageset is built using Poki:
-docs here,
-source code here.
-
Testing: Miller uses MinUnit unit-test for key
-classes including lrec_t. The remaining coverage (which is
-exhaustive) is regression coverage of Miller using all data-transform options
-and all I/O-format pairs.
+classes including lrec_t. The remaining coverage (which aims to be
+exhaustive, although this is a work in progress) is regression coverage of
+Miller using all data-transform options and all I/O-format pairs.
+
+License: Two-clause BSD license
+
+https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/master/LICENSE.txt.
diff --git a/doc/content-for-index.html b/doc/content-for-index.html
index 8ddeb5dd1..8c5d37461 100644
--- a/doc/content-for-index.html
+++ b/doc/content-for-index.html
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ need to query some data in disk files in a hurry.
operate on data where records with different schema (field names) are
interleaved.
- Like jq (for JSON), Miller is
-written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You can
-download or compile a single binary, scp it to a faraway machine, and
-expect it to work.
+ Not unlike jq (for JSON),
+Miller is written in modern C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You
+can download or compile a single binary, scp it to a faraway machine,
+and expect it to work.
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index 2cf865fae..b772406df 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ need to query some data in disk files in a hurry.
operate on data where records with different schema (field names) are
interleaved.
- Like jq (for JSON), Miller is
-written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You can
-download or compile a single binary, scp it to a faraway machine, and
-expect it to work.
+ Not unlike jq (for JSON),
+Miller is written in modern C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You
+can download or compile a single binary, scp it to a faraway machine,
+and expect it to work.