diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 992b470d..db9fcadc 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ and GNU tools installed.
 If you checked out source from CVS you will need to run autoconf to
 generate configure, otherwise you don't have to.
 
+$ autoheader
 $ autoconf
 
 Then run configure to detect your platform settings and generate makefiles.
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index ae63cb93..c07b6fb0 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ everything: all doc rdf
 install_everything: everything install install_doc install_rdf
 
 dist: spotless perlreq spec
+	autoheader
 	autoconf
 	rm -rf ./autom4te*.cache
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 36ca7fac..5ab86962 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ dnl a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ(2.53)
 AC_REVISION([$Id$])
 AC_INIT(nasm.c)
+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
 
 dnl Check for broken VPATH handling on older NetBSD makes.
 AC_DEFUN(AC_PROG_MAKE_VPATHOK,
diff --git a/misc/release b/misc/release
index 5624a196..fb16996f 100755
--- a/misc/release
+++ b/misc/release
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ work=`pwd`/nasm-release.$$
 mkdir "$work"
 cd "$work"
 
-if $real; then
+# SF uses a mirror server for anonymous CVS now.  Therefore, use a real
+# identity if we have one; otherwise, change the "true" below to "$real".
+if true; then
   # Need to tag the tree, use real account
   CVS="cvs -z3 -d ${sfuser}@cvs.nasm.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nasm"
 else