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 ### Browsable library documentation
 
-To generate a local copy of the library documentation in HTML format:
+To generate a local copy of the library documentation in HTML format, tailored to your compile-time configuration:
 
 1. Make sure that [Doxygen](http://www.doxygen.nl/) is installed. We use version 1.8.11 but slightly older or more recent versions should work.
 1. Run `make apidoc`.