diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cde84beab..f57fb4f78 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 	builds/unix/unix-cc.mk.  This fixes repeated calls of the script.
 	Reported by Nelson Beebe and Behdad Esfahbod.
 
+	* README.CVS: Mention file permissions.
+
 2005-05-23  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
 	* builds/amiga/makefile.os4 (WARNINGS), builds/compiler/gcc-dev.mk
diff --git a/README.CVS b/README.CVS
index 91852a8e6..bf15e6538 100644
--- a/README.CVS
+++ b/README.CVS
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 The CVS archive doesn't contain pre-built configuration scripts for
-UNIXish platforms.  To generate them call `autogen.sh', which in turn
-depends on the following packages:
+UNIXish platforms.  To generate them say
+
+  sh autogen.sh
+
+which in turn depends on the following packages:
 
   automake (1.9.4)
-  libtool (1.5.14)
+  libtool (1.5.16)
   autoconf (2.59b)
 
-The versions given in parentheses are known to work.
+The versions given in parentheses are known to work.  Note that autogen.sh
+also sets up proper file permissions for the configure and auxiliary
+scripts.
 
 For static builds which don't use platform specific optimizations no
 configure script is necessary at all; saying