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If you have GNU make, you can simply `make`, `make test`, and `make
install`. This calls [cmake] to create a `Makefile` in the `build`
directory, then uses that `Makefile` to create the executable and
-library. The binaries can be found in `build/src`.
+library. The binaries can be found in `build/src`. The default
+installation prefix is `/usr/local`. To change the installation
+prefix, pass the `INSTALL_PREFIX` variable if you run `make` for the
+first time: `make INSTALL_PREFIX=path`.
For a more portable method, you can use [cmake] manually. [cmake] knows
how to create build environments for many build systems. For example,