diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1be748b6af..88e061c891 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
 	#2563: [PATCH] cairo: Expose the configure option to disable some...
 	#2581: libmms: Update to 0.6, and patch to work on architectures...
 	#2707: Can't compile linux kernel using buildroot + crosstool-ng
+	#2731: Build order
 	#2767: Build for lsof broken in buildroot-2010.08
 
 2010.08: Released August 31th, 2010:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 18ca8b33d4..1469e7b1f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -305,15 +305,16 @@ endif
 
 include package/*/*.mk
 
+include boot/common.mk
+include target/Makefile.in
+include linux/linux.mk
+
 TARGETS+=target-finalize
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_PURGE),y)
 TARGETS+=target-purgelocales
 endif
 
-include boot/common.mk
-include target/Makefile.in
-include linux/linux.mk
 include fs/common.mk
 
 TARGETS+=erase-fakeroots