diff --git a/collects/stepper/stepper+xml-tool.ss b/collects/stepper/stepper+xml-tool.ss
index b97b1d3802..babc1726b6 100644
--- a/collects/stepper/stepper+xml-tool.ss
+++ b/collects/stepper/stepper+xml-tool.ss
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
   ;; snips.  note that both of these tools provide 'void' for phase1 and phase2
   ;; (which together make up the tool-exports^), so we can provide either one
   ;; of these for the compound unit.  Doesn't matter.
+  
+  ;; NNNURRRG!  This is not true any more.  But that should be okay, because the
+  ;; stepper-tool phase1 is the non-void one. -- JBC, 2006-09-28
 
   (define tool@
     (compound-unit/sig