diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 31ea04fdc..b24f36ce2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-04-25  Elijah Newren  <newren gmail com>
+
+	* HACKING: Clarify that gnome-common is needed now that autogen.sh
+	has been rewritten to use gnome-autogen.sh
+
 Fri May  5 12:50:58 2006  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>
 
 	* src/c-window.c (has_counter): Some experimental code to handle
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 5b90e95ba..f202d0713 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ Minimal Building/Testing Environment
 
   As long as you have gtk+ >= 2.6 with your distro, you should be able
   to install your distro's development packages (e.g. gtk2-devel,
-  GConf2-devel, and startup-notification-devel on Fedora) and be ready
-  to build and test Metacity.  Steps to do so:
+  GConf2-devel, startup-notification-devel on Fedora; also, remember
+  to install the gnome-common package which is needed for building cvs
+  versions of Gnome modules like Metacity) and be ready to build and
+  test Metacity.  Steps to do so:
 
   $ cvs -q -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome \
                   checkout metacity