From 7b34fc4c1e1e8c06a4eb8cced08824e6f20aff9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lostd <lostd@2f30.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:24:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Building and compatibility notes

---
 README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 44e79eff..4f3b7896 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -27,6 +27,26 @@ preceded with a " > " by default.
 For more information refer to the manpage.
 
 
+Building
+========
+
+To build noice you need a curses implementation available.  In most
+cases you just do:
+
+    make
+
+It is known to work on OpenBSD, Arch Linux, Slackware, NetBSD, IRIX.  Some notes
+for building on certain systems follow.
+
+ * NetBSD:
+
+    make LDLIBS="-lcurses"
+
+ * IRIX:
+
+    make CC="gcc" LDLIBS="-lgen -lcurses"
+
+
 Contact
 =======