diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 458c653..61c7311 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Tracing tools for ROS 2.
 
 ## Building
 
-If the `TRACETOOLS_DISABLED` option is enabled during build or if LTTng is not found, then this package will not do anything.
+If LTTng is not found during build, or if the [`TRACETOOLS_DISABLED` option is enabled](#disabling-tracing), then this package will not do anything.
 
 To enable tracing:
 
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ To enable tracing:
     $ ros2 run tracetools status
     ```
 
+### Disabling tracing
+
+Alternatively, to build and disable tracing, use `TRACETOOLS_DISABLED`:
+
+```
+$ colcon build --cmake-args " -DTRACETOOLS_DISABLED=ON"
+```
+
 ## Tracing
 
 The steps above will not lead to trace data being generated, and thus they will have no impact on execution. LTTng has to be enabled. The packages in this repo provide two options.