diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b081857..57e4353 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Basic Dropbear build instructions:
   localoptions.h should be located in the build directory if you are
   building out of tree.
 
-- If using a Mercurial or Git checkout, "autoconf; autoheader"
+- If using a Mercurial or Git checkout, run "autoconf; autoheader" to generate the ./configure script.
 
 - Configure for your system:
   ./configure     (optionally with --disable-zlib or --disable-syslog,