X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/tig/blobdiff_plain/24b5b3e07ce10436d3aefb02bc7e66dc59fd09a6..HEAD:/INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c0ba999..088f674 100644
--- 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:
 
 `-------------------------------`----------------------------------------------
@@ -21,7 +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)
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