From ee946d0d8c49f164fde0f863a5fffb646d20db27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:52:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] README: update build instructions

---
 README.md | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 084f373..d818ee6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,15 @@ i3status is developed at https://github.com/i3/i3status
 
 ## Compilation 
 
-Compiling is done with the usual make-line
+Prefer installing i3status via your Linux distribution’s package manager.
+
+If you absolutely have to build from source, use:
+
 ```bash
-  make && sudo make install
+  autoreconf -fi
+  mkdir build
+  cd build
+  ../configure
+  make -j8
+  sudo make install
 ```