diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e4846db..245d748 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Thu Nov 26 2009 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	  commands.  Based on patch by Nikratio.  Closes issue 33.
 	* don't enable valgrind support unless explicitly requested.
 	  Fix for issue 35.
+	* fix INSTALL instructions.  issue 47
 
 Sun Nov 22 2009 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	* use lutimes instead of utimes, so that symlinks can have time modified
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 06d2fba..0718c0c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Encfs uses the GNU autoconf / automake toolchain to create makefiles.
 
 The configure script is automatically generated, but is part of most EncFS
 distributions.  If you have a distribution that does not contain the configure
-script, then you can generate it by either running the "makeconf.sh" script, or
-running "make -f Makefile.dist".
+script, then you can generate it by running "autoreconf -if" or by running
+"make -f Makefile.dist".
 
 To build encfs, run:
 
diff --git a/Makefile.dist b/Makefile.dist
index d160702..21faf23 100644
--- a/Makefile.dist
+++ b/Makefile.dist
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 default: all
 
 all:
-	aclocal
-	autoheader
-	automake
-	autoconf
+	autoreconf -if