diff --git a/README b/README
index ca3f6b70db..5c7216b8ea 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -146,7 +146,11 @@ Lesstif 0.82: broken
 Lesstif 0.86.0: works
 Lesstif 0.86.5: broken
 Lesstif 0.86.9  works ... but some menus come out 2 pixels high.
-Lesstif 0.87.0: broken (missing symbols for XmeDrawShadows, etc.)
+Lesstif 0.87.0: (see below) (missing symbols for XmeDrawShadows, etc.)
+
+The missing symbols in lesstif aren't really "missing"; they're there
+when lesstif is built for motif-2.0 compatibility, and are absent when
+built for motif-1.2 compatibility.  
 
 These core dumps do not occur with RedHat Motif (or other commercial
 versions of Motif).