Commit 301639c5dea4585e96e24018cbc262b8aa240c89

jwmelto 2010-06-16T06:02:22

Expand installation instructions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 686b03d..3cf0530 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -4,9 +4,22 @@ This project will build a static library (archive) in the src directory.
 
 The Makefiles need GNU Make in order to work properly.
 
+The easiest way to start is to try autogen.
+
+    $ ./autogen.sh
+
+If this completes successfully, it means that the system was able to
+deduce the location of all prerequisites. Next, configure the makefiles
+
+    $ ./configure
+
+This will configure the default build configuration with a target install
+directory of /usr/local. This is adequate for most users.
+
 FTGL requires the Freetype2 library (version 2.0.9 or later) and OpenGL
-(glu version 1.2 or later). You can pass flags to the configure script
-to point it to the place where these libraries are installed, like this:
+(glu version 1.2 or later). If these libraries cannot be found by autogen,
+you can pass flags to the configure script to point it to the place where
+these libraries are installed, like this:
 
     $ ./configure --with-gl-inc=/usr/local/include \
                   --with-gl-lib=/usr/local/lib
@@ -22,6 +35,14 @@ an email to mmagallo@debian.org (please include FTGL somewhere in the
 subject line) and include a copy of the config.log file that was left
 behind.
 
+Once the build is configured, simple run make
+
+    $ make
+
+To install the library, you will probably require superuser permission:
+
+    $ sudo make install
+
 If doxygen is installed, documentation in HTML format will be generated
 in the docs subdirectory.