Minor improvements to the documentation on how to compile for Unix.

No changes to code.

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README.md

@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ the build products.  It is recommended, but not required, that the
 build directory be separate from the source directory.  Cd into the
 build directory and then from the build directory run the configure
 script found at the root of the source tree.  Then run "make".
+See the [compile-for-unix.md](doc/compile-for-unix.md) document for
+more detail.
 
 For example:
 

doc/compile-for-unix.md

@@ -37,18 +37,35 @@ guidance on building for Windows.
   4.  Download the SQLite source tree and unpack it. CD into the
       toplevel directory of the source tree.
 
-  5.  Run: `./configure --enable-all --with-tclsh=$HOME/local/bin/tclsh9.0`
+  5.  *(Optional):* Download Antirez's "linenoise" command-line editing
+      library to provide command-line editing in the CLI.  You can find
+      a suitable copy of the linenoise sources at
+      <https://sqlite.org/linenoise.tar.gz> or at various other locations
+      on the internet.  If you put the linenoise source tree in
+      a directory named $HOME/linenoise or a directory "linenoise" which
+      is a sibling of the SQLite source tree, then the SQLite ./configure
+      script will automatically find and use that source code to provide
+      command-line editing in the CLI. If you would rather use the readline
+      or editline libraries or a precompiled linenoise library, there are
+      ./configure options to accommodate that choice. The SQLite developers
+      typically use $HOME/linenoise since linenoise is small, has no
+      external dependencies, "just works", and the ./configure script
+      will pick it up and use it automatically. But you do what works
+      best for you.
+      <p>
+      You are not required to have any command-line editing support in
+      order to use SQLite.  But command-line editing does make the
+      interactive experience more enjoyable.
+
+  6.  Run: `./configure --enable-all --with-tclsh=$HOME/local/bin/tclsh9.0`
 
       You do not need to use --with-tclsh if the tclsh you want to use is the
       first one on your PATH or if you are building without TCL.
 
-      The SQLite developers typically add the
-      &ensp; `--with-linenoise=$HOME/linenoise` &ensp; option
-      to provide command-line editing.  "$HOME/linenoise" is a directory
-      that contains [linenoise](https://github.com/antirez/linenoise) source
-      code files, `linenoise.c` and `linenoise.h`.
+      Lots of other options to ./configure are available.
+      Run `./configure --help` for further guidance.
 
-  6.  Run the "`Makefile`" makefile with an appropriate target.
+  7.  Run the "`Makefile`" makefile with an appropriate target.
       Examples:
       <ul>
       <li>  `make sqlite3.c`
@@ -73,5 +90,7 @@ guidance on building for Windows.
       of SQLite.
 
 
-  7.  For a debugging build of the CLI, where the ".treetrace" and ".wheretrace"
-      commands work, add the the --with-debug argument to configure.
+  8.  For a debugging build of the CLI, use `./configure --dev`.  A debugging
+      build contains lots of extra debugging code, so it is slow and a lot
+      bigger.  You probably do not want to deploy a debugging build.  But if
+      you are working on the code, a debugging build works much better.

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