-If you want later builds to go faster, at the expense of sometimes
-doing the wrong thing if you update the build procedure, you can
-invoke "./configure -C" instead.
-
-Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
-byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the repository. Therefore, to
-build from the repository you must run "make bootstrap" instead of
-just "make":
-
- $ make bootstrap
-
-Normally, it is not necessary to use "make bootstrap" after every
-update from the repository. "make" should work in 90% of the cases and be
-much quicker.
+The 'configure' script has many options; run './configure --help' to
+see them. For example, if you want later builds to go faster, albeit
+sometimes doing the wrong thing if you update the build procedure, you
+can invoke './configure -C'. After configuring, build Emacs as follows: