Index: code/unix/Makefile
===================================================================
--- code/unix/Makefile	(revision 252)
+++ code/unix/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -488,6 +488,26 @@
 endif #IRIX
 endif #SunOS
 
+BUILD_SERVER := 1
+ifneq ($(BUILD_SERVER),1)
+  TARGETS := $(subst $(B)/$(PLATFORM)q3ded,,$(TARGETS))
+endif
+
+BUILD_CLIENT := 1
+ifneq ($(BUILD_CLIENT),1)
+  TARGETS := \
+	$(subst $(B)/baseq3/cgame$(ARCH).$(SHLIBEXT),,\
+	$(subst $(B)/baseq3/ui$(ARCH).$(SHLIBEXT),,\
+	$(subst $(B)/missionpack/cgame$(ARCH).$(SHLIBEXT),,\
+	$(subst $(B)/missionpack/ui$(ARCH).$(SHLIBEXT),,\
+	$(subst $(B)/baseq3/vm/cgame.qvm,,\
+	$(subst $(B)/baseq3/vm/ui.qvm,,\
+	$(subst $(B)/missionpack/vm/cgame.qvm,,\
+	$(subst $(B)/missionpack/vm/ui.qvm,,\
+	$(subst $(B)/$(PLATFORM)quake3-smp$(BINEXT),,\
+	$(subst $(B)/$(PLATFORM)quake3$(BINEXT),,$(TARGETS) ))))))))))
+endif
+
 ifdef DEFAULT_BASEDIR
   BASE_CFLAGS += -DDEFAULT_BASEDIR=\\\"$(DEFAULT_BASEDIR)\\\"
 endif
Index: i_o-q3-readme
===================================================================
--- i_o-q3-readme	(revision 252)
+++ i_o-q3-readme	(working copy)
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
 1. If not already there, change to the directory containing this readme
 2. Run 'make'
 
+For distro maintainers, you can set some make variables:
+ DEFAULT_BASEDIR - extra path to search for baseq3 and such
+ BUILD_SERVER    - build the 'q3ded' server binary (1 = build it, default = 1)
+ BUILD_CLIENT    - build the 'quake3' client binary (1 = build it, default = 1)
+
 Installing under Linux
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 In code/unix edit the Makefile's COPYDIR variable to be where you installed