diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d67f32fd079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Welcome to the fun world of opensource.
+
+To help you get started do the following before starting:
+
+Assuming your using tcsh/csh do the following before compiling.
+#Set this to wherever you have extracted the source.
+setenv NANBLENDERHOME `pwd`
+setenv MAKEFLAGS "-w -I$NANBLENDERHOME/source"
+
+set NANBLENDERHOME=`pwd`
+export NANBLENDERHOME
+set MAKEFLAGS="-w -I$NANBLENDERHOME/source"
+export MAKEFLAGS
+
+Then edit source/nan_definitions.mk to fit your environment.
+
+
diff --git a/source/nan_definitions.mk b/source/nan_definitions.mk
index d084ce972f5..1a0726080a7 100644
--- a/source/nan_definitions.mk
+++ b/source/nan_definitions.mk
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ all debug::
       $(error $(ERRTXT))
     endif
   endif
-    export SRCHOME ?= $(HOME)/develop/source
-    export NAN_LIBDIR ?= $(HOME)/develop/lib
-    export NAN_OBJDIR ?= $(HOME)/obj
+    export SRCHOME ?= $(NANBLENDERHOME)/source
+    export NAN_LIBDIR ?= $(NANBLENDERHOME)/lib
+    export NAN_OBJDIR ?= $(NANBLENDERHOME)/obj
     export NAN_PYTHON ?= $(LCGDIR)/python
     export NAN_PYTHON_VERSION ?= 2.0
     export NAN_OPENAL ?= $(LCGDIR)/openal