Move configuration explicitly to the first step.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 126fd817e6e..9808c9ff53a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-01-11  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
+
+        * INSTALL.CVS: Move configuration explicitly to the first step.
+
 2009-01-09  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * .dir-locals.el: Don't set indent-tabs-mode.
diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS
index 9960e1ac34e..bf27ea71625 100644
--- a/INSTALL.CVS
+++ b/INSTALL.CVS
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
               Building and Installing Emacs from CVS
 
+If this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to configure
+before bootstrapping:
+
+  $ ./configure
+
 Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
 byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
 Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
@@ -13,9 +18,6 @@ instead of just "make":
   $ cvs update -dP
   $ make bootstrap
 
-Of course, if this is the first time you go through it, you'll need to do
-./configure before the "make bootstrap".
-
 Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every CVS
 update.  "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be much quicker.