README.md: new section "Building and testing for dummies"

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only the static binaries work correctly, do not forget to set `--enable-static`
option in the `configure` script.
### Building and testing for dummies
```
$ git clone https://github.com/void-linux/xbps
$ cd xbps
$ ./configure --enable-rpath --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ make DESTDIR=~/xbps-git install clean
$ export PATH=~/xbps-git/usr/bin:$PATH
$ xbps-query -V
...
```
Thanks to `--enable-rpath` you can install it anywhere and it will still use
the libxbps shared library at `$ORIGIN/../lib`, that means that if xbps
is installed to `$HOME/xbps-git/usr`, the executables will use
`$HOME/xbps-git/usr/lib` to locate `libxbps`.
Happy testing!
### Tests
To run the test suite make sure *kyua* is installed and run the following: