It was found out during the "from scratch" walkthrough
over http://altlinux.org/m-p with a new user that the
proposed test build run isn't clear regarding the proper
current working directory (wiki refers to QUICKSTART
copy over at http://git.altlinux.org, and this file has
been written with assumption that it's being read from
within the repository's toplevel directory; the resulting
context isn't consistent in that regard).