Index: INSTALL.CVS
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/INSTALL.CVS,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 INSTALL.CVS
--- INSTALL.CVS	8 Jan 2008 20:46:39 -0000	1.12
+++ INSTALL.CVS	6 Apr 2008 22:17:43 -0000
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
   $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
 
 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
+If "make bootstrap" fails, which does happen on occasion, you will
+need to do "make distclean" or "make maintainer-clean" and then rerun
+./configure before doing "make bootstrap".
 
 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,