diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index dbadc4e97..0b829123f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -365,6 +365,15 @@ case "$target_os" in
     GNUSTEP_NETWORK_USERS_DIR="C:\Documents and Settings"
     GNUSTEP_LOCAL_USERS_DIR="C:\Documents and Settings"
 
+    # TODO: It would be nice to use the 'short' output of
+    # relative_path.sh, but older versions of relative_path.sh
+    # did not support specifying the type of output and
+    # would abort if they were given more than 2 parameters,
+    # so we can not use the 'short' option if we want gnustep-base
+    # to work with older versions of gnustep-make.
+    # Once everyone has upgraded to gnustep-make >= 2.0.5 (I'd say
+    # two years after it has been released ?), we could switch to the 
+    # 'short' output though.
     GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS=`$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/relative_path.sh $GNUSTEP_BASE_PATH $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS`
     GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ADMIN_APPS=`$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/relative_path.sh $GNUSTEP_BASE_PATH $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ADMIN_APPS`
     GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_WEB_APPS=`$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/relative_path.sh $GNUSTEP_BASE_PATH $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_WEB_APPS`