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 	make && make install
 
+By default a debug build is created, to create a release build do:
+
+	make BUILD_TYPE=rel
+
 The kernel headers are necessary because VFIO structs and defines are reused.
 To enable Python bindings set the PYTHON_BINDINGS environment variable to a
 non-empty string.