Merge branch 'refs/heads/t/kill-w'

[dss.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f48784b5ea74f2d26b94e6e7618f80c52aeb6cd9..09d8505b3a46d5381a8626fd462ee7a6fd149af5 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -8,11 +8,23 @@ Type
 
                make
 
-in the dss source directory to build the dss executable and copy it
-to some directory that is included in your PATH, e.g. to `$HOME/bin`
-or to `/usr/local/bin`.
+in the dss source directory to build the dss executable and the man
+page. If lopsub is installed in a non-standard path, you may need to
+run `make` as follows:
 
-Also make sure that [rsync](http://rsync.samba.org/) is installed on
+               make CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/lopsub/include LDFLAGS=-L$HOME/lopsub/lib
+
+Then type
+
+               sudo make install
+
+to install in /usr/local, or
+
+               make install PREFIX=/somewhere/else
+
+to install in /somewhere/else.
+
+Also make sure that [rsync](https://rsync.samba.org/) is installed on
 your system. Version 2.6.1 or newer is required.
 
 Examples:
@@ -58,7 +70,7 @@ system boundaries and increases the number of snapshots.
                rsync-option "--exclude-from=/etc/dss.exclude"
                # don't cross filesystem boundaries
                rsync-option "--one-file-system"
-               # maintain 2^6 - 1 = 63 snaphots
+               # maintain 2^6 - 1 = 63 snapshots
                num-intervals "6"
 
 The /etc/dss.exclude file could look like this (see rsync(1) for