diff --git a/lib/libpam/Makefile b/lib/libpam/Makefile
index 8db786f90754..4f5fc195c2d0 100644
--- a/lib/libpam/Makefile
+++ b/lib/libpam/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.3 2010/05/03 22:12:32 christos Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2010/11/28 00:50:16 christos Exp $
 # Copyright 1998 Juniper Networks, Inc.
 # All rights reserved.
 #
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@
 #
 # $FreeBSD: src/lib/libpam/Makefile,v 1.3 2003/03/09 20:06:34 obrien Exp $
 
-# The modules must be built first, because they are built into the
-# static version of libpam.
+# The static modules must be built before libpam, because they are built
+# into the static version of libpam. The dynamic modules must be build after
+# libpam because they depend on the dynamic version of libpam.
 SUBDIR=	staticmodules .WAIT libpam .WAIT modules
 
 .include <bsd.subdir.mk>