-## configure; make bootstrap replaces the real config.log from configure
-## with the truncated one from config.status. The former is more useful.
+# Bootstrapping does the following:
+# * Remove files to start from a clean slate.
+# * Run autogen.sh, but don't worry about exit status 101 (missing tools).
+# * Build Makefile, to build the build procedure itself.
+# * Do the actual build.