Improve robustness of 'make bootstrap'.

[gnu-emacs] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f0cf5d68db0048ba29be2a241e688cf96dd9498c..4716bbecf99b85c9700d8b6ada9f211b2bba876e 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -695,9 +695,9 @@ running the `configure' program, you have to perform the following steps.
 corresponding `Makefile.in' files.  This isn't so hard, just a matter
 of editing in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs.
 
-The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the `autoconf'
-program.  You need at least the version of autoconf specified in the
-AC_PREREQ(...) command to rebuild `configure' from `configure.ac'.
+The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the
+`autogen.sh' script, which checks that `autoconf' and other build
+tools are sufficiently up to date and then runs the build tools.
 
 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND