diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 64ed895..74a2054 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ pkg-deb: dist
 # Create an RPM package
 RPM_DIR=rpm
 rpm: dist
-	mkdir -p $(RPM_DIR)/RPMS/i686
+	mkdir -p $(RPM_DIR)/RPMS
 	mkdir -p $(RPM_DIR)/SRPMS
 	mkdir -p $(RPM_DIR)/BUILD
 	mkdir -p $(RPM_DIR)/SOURCES
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dfd9326..5eb90b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Autoconf (g++)
 * ./autogen.sh
 * ./configure 
 * make (builds shared library)
-* make check (runs protocol unit tests)
+* make check (runs protocol unit tests, expects a kafka broker at host:port and with topics as specified in TestConfig.cc)
 * make rpm (packages an RPM, tested on CentOs 6.x, genearted into ./rpm/RPMS/$(arch))
 * make distcheck (produces release packages, tar.gz and tar.bz2)
 * make maintainer-clean (clean all autoconf generated files)