diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 6cc57b9f9a..8a38c1dfc0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -29,11 +29,9 @@ symbols:
 
    make distclean ; ./configure --enable-debug
 
-We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success
-with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 4.8 or higher is
-required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x), please select a more recent
-version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
-appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
+We recommend using either GCC or Clang/LLVM to build VLC. Specifically,
+GCC version 5 or higher, or Clang/LLVM version 3.4 or higher are required.
+Other compilers with compatible feature sets should also work.
 
 
 Building VLC