commit 5a2dc7a2ad889bfe38901f93c2f694ffae306d4d
author Brian W. Mulligan <astrobit@users.noreply.github.com> Wed Oct 18 00:20:45 2017 -0500
committer Christopher Dunn <cdunn2001@gmail.com> Wed Oct 18 00:20:45 2017 -0500
tree 02d009d3931d64ce9b42735422089ed8bf91d3cc
parent a06b390187c0b01ea0363b93e3e74117aa55da4b

Add comment to README giving instructions on how to install to a directory other than /usr/local (#694)

README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 51d60e1..8332742 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 Thanks to David Seifert (@SoapGentoo), we (the maintainers) now use [meson](http://mesonbuild.com/) and [ninja](https://ninja-build.org/) to build for debugging, as well as for continuous integration (see [`travis.sh`](travis.sh) ). Other systems may work, but minor things like version strings might break.
 
 First, install both meson (which requires Python3) and ninja.
+If you wish to install to a directory other than /usr/local, set an environment variable called DESTDIR with the desired path:
+    DESTDIR=/path/to/install/dir
 
 Then,