* INSTALL: Try to clarify role of make distclean.

Fixes: debbugs:14833

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ec19e49b260..83e393d50db 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -70,24 +70,17 @@ sections if you need to.
      you, but there are no obvious errors, assume that `configure' did
      its job and proceed.
 
-  4. If you need to run the `configure' script more than once (e.g.,
-     with some non-default options), always clean the source
-     directories before running `configure' again:
-
-                make distclean
-                ./configure
-
-  5. Invoke the `make' program:
+  4. Invoke the `make' program:
 
                  make
 
-  6. If `make' succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs'
+  5. If `make' succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs'
      in the `src' directory.  You can try this program, to make sure
      it works:
 
                  src/emacs -Q
 
-  7. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
+  6. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
      opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
      files into their installation directories:
 
@@ -101,6 +94,11 @@ sections if you need to.
 
   You can delete the entire build directory if you do not plan to
   build Emacs again, but it can be useful to keep for debugging.
+  If you want to build Emacs again with different configure options,
+  first clean the source directories:
+
+                make distclean
+                ./configure
 
   Note that the install automatically saves space by compressing
   (provided you have the `gzip' program) those installed Lisp source (.el)