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diff --git a/BUILD.txt b/BUILD.txt
index 146364ab7..27029b757 100644
--- a/BUILD.txt
+++ b/BUILD.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ On UNIX and MinGW systems, you also need standard utilities like sh,
 cmp or make.  On MSYS2 packages msys/diffutils and msys/make must be
 installed.
 
+In these instructions, the configure script is executed in the source
+directory; but you can execute in a different directory too, like
+this:
+$ mkdir ghdl-objs
+$ cd ghdl-objs
+$ ../path/to/ghdl/configure ...
+
 Building with mcode backend
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