README: Explain the building process slightly better

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@@ -12,12 +12,17 @@ This is a tool for processing column-oriented text files. It handles several
 formats of files including CSV, fields with fixed delimiters, fields separated
 by arbitrary whitespace, regex matching, formatting of tables and so on.
 
-See the man page for full description.
+Compilation instructions:
+
+  o  Use "make" to build the tool (xsv) and its manual page (xsv.1).
+
+  o  Use "make tests" to run the testsuite.
+
+  o  Use "make install" to install the package to /usr/local/
+     (or anywhere else if you override PREFIX).
 
 The program has been tested on Linux, but it should run on an arbitrary POSIX
-system with a C99 compiler and the PCRE library. Building of documentation
+system with a C99 compiler and the PCRE library. Building of the manual page
 requires AsciiDoc (any reasonably recent version should work).
 
-Use "make" to build and "make tests" to run the test suite.
-
 All bug reports and suggestions are welcome, especially when accompanied by patches.