<para><ulink url="http://expat.sourceforge.net">Expat</ulink>
is strongly recommended for source builds as it is
required for reading all the XML formats such as GPX.
+</para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://libusb.sourceforge.net">libusb</ulink>
+is recommended for OS/X and Linux if you want to use a USB Garmin.
+</para>
+<para>There are additional flags that can be passed to configure to
+ customize your build of GPSBabel. <screen format="linespecific"> ./configure --help</screen> lists all the supported options, but additionally we have:
+</para>
+<para>
+ <option>--disable-shapefile</option> Excludes the shapefile support.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <option>--disable-pdb</option> Excludes the Palm database support and all formats that rely on it.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <option>--disable-csv</option> Excludes all support for our something-separated formats.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <option>--disable-filters</option> Excludes all filter support.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <option>--without-libusb</option> Disables use of libusb, even it's it's available.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <option>--with-zlib=(included)|system|no</option> By default, we use our own version of zlib. Ify ou specify <option>system</option> the system zlib is used. A value of <option>no</option> (or --without-zlib) disables zlib.
</para>
</chapter>