Make tig handle GIT_DIR better

[tig] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index caf210d..088f674 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ To install documentation run:
 
        $ make install-docs
 
+Edit the Makefile if you need to configure specific compiler or linker flags.
+On FreeBSD for example the c library does not support the iconv interface and
+to compile tig you need to append `-L/usr/local/lib -liconv` to `LDLIBS` and
+`-I/usr/local/include` to the `CFLAGS` variable.
+
 The following tools and packages are needed:
 
 `-------------------------------`----------------------------------------------
@@ -21,10 +26,10 @@ Tool                                Description
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 git-core                       Tig is just a frontend for git.
 ncurses                                Be sure to also have development files \
-                               installed. Usually they are available in a
+                               installed. Usually they are available in a \
                                separate package ending with `-dev`.
+iconv                          If iconv is not provided by the c library \
+                               you need to change the Makefile to link it \
+                               into the binary.
 asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto       For building documentation. (Optional)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-NOTE: You need to install the tig(1) man page in order for the internal help to
-be available.