diff --git a/INSTALL.swift b/INSTALL.swift
index b39d91d92ca87ffbbcf7f35b50548b75de3c86e5..fd960200117972d72ec5144250c51fa5126f09f4 100644
--- a/INSTALL.swift
+++ b/INSTALL.swift
@@ -78,9 +78,11 @@ also be switched off for benchmarking purposes. To do so, you can use:
 Please note that to build SWIFT on MacOS, you will need to configure
 using
 
-    ./configure --disable-vec --disable-compiler-warnings
+    ./configure --disable-compiler-warnings
+
+due to the incorrect behaviour of the LLVM compiler on this platform
+that raises warnings when the pthread flags are passed to the linker.
 
-due to some features not being available on the Mac platform.
 
 
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