README: Explain usage of prefix when installing

Installing the man pages to /usr may not be the preferred option
when working on a system with a packaging system like apt or yum,
where /usr is reserved for packages and /usr/local or /opt is used
for user addons.

README should explain how to install to a path different to /usr.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/README b/README
index 447a92583939929de4407a688f43e94eef43f773..0ec038fed28b05f3438db39a1a2746417169b5ae 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ This package contains Linux man pages for sections
 
 Install by copying to your favourite location.
 "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
+To install to a path different from /usr use
+"make install prefix=/install/path".
 "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than
 the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed',
 then remove old versions (compressed or not),