INSTALL: mention possible iconv problems and workarounds

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index dac48a4e184ab08be2258a5ec99aca896d9f589f..088f6742c41683e63daa04417a66048d5bd340e4 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:
 
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@@ -23,5 +28,8 @@ git-core                      Tig is just a frontend for git.
 ncurses                                Be sure to also have development files \
                                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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