diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 592bd771c2..b23cd2b08d 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ my $gcc_devteam_warn = "-Wall -pedantic -DPEDANTIC -Wno-long-long -Wsign-compare
 # -Wextended-offsetof
 my $clang_devteam_warn = "-Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-language-extension-token -Wno-extended-offsetof -Wconditional-uninitialized -Qunused-arguments -Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers -Wmissing-variable-declarations";
 
+# Warn that "make depend" should be run?
+my $warn_make_depend = 0;
+
 # These are used in addition to $gcc_devteam_warn unless this is a mingw build.
 # This adds backtrace information to the memory leak info.
 my $memleak_devteam_backtrace = "-rdynamic -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_BACKTRACE";
@@ -2152,13 +2155,8 @@ EOF
 	(system $make_command.$make_targets) == 0 or die "make $make_targets failed"
 		if $make_targets ne "";
 	if ($depflags ne $default_depflags && !$make_depend) {
-		print <<EOF;
-
-Since you've disabled or enabled at least one algorithm, you need to do
-the following before building:
-
-	make depend
-EOF
+            $warn_make_depend++;
+        }
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2238,12 +2236,18 @@ EOF
 
 print <<\EOF if ($no_shared_warn);
 
-You gave the option 'shared'.  Normally, that would give you shared libraries.
-Unfortunately, the OpenSSL configuration doesn't include shared library support
-for this platform yet, so it will pretend you gave the option 'no-shared'.  If
-you can inform the developpers (openssl-dev\@openssl.org) how to support shared
-libraries on this platform, they will at least look at it and try their best
-(but please first make sure you have tried with a current version of OpenSSL).
+You gave the option 'shared', which is not supported on this platform, so
+we will pretend you gave the option 'no-shared'.  If you know how to implement
+shared libraries, please let us know (but please first make sure you have
+tried with a current version of OpenSSL).
+EOF
+
+print <<EOF if ($warn_make_depend);
+
+*** Because of configuration changes, you MUST do the following before
+*** building:
+
+	make depend
 EOF
 
 exit(0);