diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 93becf6..8fc5729 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ doc/stow.info
 doc/stow.texi
 doc/texinfo.tex
 doc/version.texi
-INSTALL
+INSTALL.md
 lib/Stow.pm
 lib/Stow.pm.in
 lib/Stow/Util.pm
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Makefile.in
 MANIFEST			This list of files
 MANIFEST.SKIP
 NEWS
-README
+README.md
 t/chkstow.t
 t/cleanup_invalid_links.t
 t/cli_options.t
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 7a1a808..d3f9841 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ dist_man_MANS = doc/stow.8
 PDF = doc/manual.pdf
 HTML = doc/manual-single.html
 dist_doc_DATA = \
-	README \
+	README.md INSTALL.md \
 	$(PDF) $(HTML) doc/version.texi \
 	ChangeLog doc/ChangeLog.OLD
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4b3bd49..6631a6f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([automake])
 # Unfortunately we have to disable warnings for overrides, because we
 # need to override the built-in `check' rule and also the TEXI2DVI
 # variable.
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror -Wno-override dist-bzip2])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror -Wno-override dist-bzip2 foreign])
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 
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