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docs: improve description of make command in install docs

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@ -312,9 +312,10 @@ go build -trimpath -ldflags -s -tags cmount
```
Instead of executing the `go build` command directly, you can run it via the
Makefile, which also sets version information and copies the resulting rclone
executable into your GOPATH bin folder (`$(go env GOPATH)/bin`, which
corresponds to `~/go/bin/rclone` by default).
Makefile. It changes the version number suffix from "-DEV" to "-beta" and
appends commit details. It also copies the resulting rclone executable into
your GOPATH bin folder (`$(go env GOPATH)/bin`, which corresponds to
`~/go/bin/rclone` by default).
```
make
@ -326,7 +327,15 @@ To include mount command on macOS and Windows with Makefile build:
make GOTAGS=cmount
```
As an alternative you can download the source, build and install rclone in one
There are other make targets that can be used for more advanced builds,
such as cross-compiling for all supported os/architectures, embedding
icon and version info resources into windows executable, and packaging
results into release artifacts.
See [Makefile](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/Makefile)
and [cross-compile.go](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/cross-compile.go)
for details.
Another alternative is to download the source, build and install rclone in one
operation, as a regular Go package. The source will be stored it in the Go
module cache, and the resulting executable will be in your GOPATH bin folder
(`$(go env GOPATH)/bin`, which corresponds to `~/go/bin/rclone` by default).