diff --git a/README.checkout b/README.checkout
index d07a9035..1928b6fb 100644
--- a/README.checkout
+++ b/README.checkout
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ In case you aren't used to running autoconf manually to generate the
 necessary configure script, a script called autogen.sh has been
 provided, and may be invoked using `./autogen.sh'.  Once the script
 has completed, the configure script will reside in the current
-directory and you can proceed to build Wget in the usual fashion.
+directory and you can proceed to build Wget as described in the
+`INSTALL' file.
 
 To summarize, once you've checked out wget from the Subversion
 repository, the commands you'll execute will be as follows (barring