diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b220b4d3d9..6eaf9a22af 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Nov 10 12:31:21 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* README.EXT (Example): extconf.rb is indispensable now.
+
 Wed Nov 10 03:33:36 2004  Hidetoshi NAGAI  <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
 
 	* ext/tcltklib/tcltklib.c: fix SEGV when compiled with Tcl/Tk8.3.x
diff --git a/README.EXT b/README.EXT
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@@ -595,8 +595,7 @@ are not exported to the Ruby world.  You need to protect them by
 (4) prepare extconf.rb
 
 If the file named extconf.rb exists, it will be executed to generate
-Makefile.  If not, the compilation scheme will try to generate Makefile
-anyway.
+Makefile.
 
 extconf.rb is the file for check compilation conditions etc.  You
 need to put