diff --git a/CVS-INFO b/CVS-INFO
index 6942ccc40d..4b5c06aa49 100644
--- a/CVS-INFO
+++ b/CVS-INFO
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ inner sanctum.
   memanalyze.pl is for analyzing the output generated by curl if -DMALLOCDEBUG
                 is used when compiling
 
+  buildconf     builds the makefiles and configure stuff
+
   Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives
 
   perl/contrib/ is a subdirectory with various perl scripts
@@ -25,9 +27,6 @@ inner sanctum.
 
 To build after having extracted everything from CVS, do this:
 
-automake
-aclocal
-autoheader
-autoconf
+./buildconf
 ./configure
 make