diff --git a/CVS-INFO b/CVS-INFO
index d211c5f3e5d278610490ae9555b1b3efd4768537..dfe1bb0e19a146c77206c0f7d34482e3e9ee8d2e 100644
--- a/CVS-INFO
+++ b/CVS-INFO
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ CHANGES.0     contains ancient changes.
 memanalyze.pl is for analyzing the output generated by curl if -DMALLOCDEBUG
               is used when compiling
 
+Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives
+
 perl/         is a subdirectory with various perl scripts
 
 To build after having extracted everything from CVS, do this: