diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6c3784c91753..08b9e2947527 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-#	$Id: Makefile,v 1.197 1998/06/06 00:56:23 bde Exp $
+#	$Id: Makefile,v 1.198 1998/06/06 01:13:21 bde Exp $
 #
 # While porting to the another architecture include the bootstrap instead
 # of the normal build.
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@
 # Make command line options:
 #	-DCLOBBER will remove /usr/include
 #	-DMAKE_KERBEROS4 to build KerberosIV
-#	-DALLLANG to build documentation for all languages
-#	  (where available -- see share/doc/Makefile)
-#
 #	-DNOCLEANDIR run ${MAKE} clean, instead of ${MAKE} cleandir
 #	-DNOCLEAN do not clean at all
 #	-DNOTOOLS do not rebuild any tools first
diff --git a/release/Makefile b/release/Makefile
index f39241453a41..d712d1521d65 100644
--- a/release/Makefile
+++ b/release/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#	$Id: Makefile,v 1.352 1998/05/29 19:36:12 jkh Exp $
+#	$Id: Makefile,v 1.353 1998/05/30 12:15:02 jkh Exp $
 #
 # make release CHROOTDIR=/some/dir BUILDNAME=somename [ RELEASETAG=tag ]
 #
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ RELEASEPORTSMODULE?=	ports
 # Uncomment this to disable the doc.1 target.  It is also an ERROR
 # to set NOPORTS and not set NODOC since docs depend on ports.
 #NODOC=  YES
+# Comment the following if you want the release documentation to be
+# in English only.
+ALLLANG= yes
 DOCPORTS= archivers/unzip lang/perl5 textproc/jade textproc/iso8879 \
           textproc/linuxdoc textproc/docbook textproc/sgmlformat
 
@@ -196,6 +199,9 @@ rerelease release:
 .if defined(NODOC)
 	echo "export NODOC=${NODOC}"		>> ${CHROOTDIR}/mk
 .endif
+.if defined(ALLLANG)
+	echo "export ALLLANG=${ALLLANG}"	>> ${CHROOTDIR}/mk
+.endif
 .if defined(NOSRC)
 	echo "export NOSRC=${NOSRC}"		>> ${CHROOTDIR}/mk
 .endif