diff --git a/doc/build-p690 b/doc/build-p690
index 19854ff671d7b18697f3e389d6b406e7fc85b69d..07107381ab1db8867692406120bef444a6f40f82 100644
--- a/doc/build-p690
+++ b/doc/build-p690
@@ -1,22 +1,26 @@
 Build recipe for the p690
 
 Author: Douglas Guptill
-Date: 2009-07-14
+Date: 2009-07-14, 15
 
+# Edit Makefile.p690
+#
+# a quirk, make will fail otherwise.
+touch Makefile.deps
+# install the Makefile specialization for the p690.
+make p690
 # The default xlf compiler is version 8.1.  
 # It is not up to the task of compiling douar
 PATH=/usr/xlf-10.1/usr/bin:${PATH}
 # WSMP wants this.
 export OBJECT_MODE=64
-# a quirk, make will fail otherwise.
-touch Makefile.deps
-# install the Makefile specialization for the p690.
-make p690
 # install the latest version of define_bc
 make bc_20090710
 # build douar.
 make
+#
 # The link will fail if the -extchk option is still there.
+#
 # look at the ouput
 make more-output
 # remove -extchk from FFLAGS and CFLAGS in Makefile.p690
@@ -26,6 +30,9 @@ make p690
 make distclean
 # build douar again
 make
+#
+# After a successful compile and link....
+#
 # Look at the build output
 make more-output
 # install the binary