diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8eaeab7b95..13214b5bed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -70,14 +70,13 @@ In this case, the only system dependency is a C compiler.
 
 ```
 cc -o bootstrap bootstrap.c
-./bootstrap build
+./bootstrap
 ```
 
-You can pass any options to this that you would pass to `zig build` (see
-`--help` for options).
-
-[Without LLVM extensions](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270), a Zig
-compiler is missing these features:
+This produces a `zig2` executable in the current working directory. This is a
+"stage2" build of the compiler,
+[without LLVM extensions](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270), and is
+therefore lacking these features:
 - Release mode optimizations
 - aarch64 machine code backend
 - `@cImport` / `zig translate-c`
@@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ compiler is missing these features:
 - [Some ELF linking features](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17749)
 - [Most COFF/PE linking features](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17751)
 - [Some WebAssembly linking features](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17750)
-- [COFF linking](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17751)
 - [Ability to output LLVM bitcode](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13265)
 - [Windows resource file compilation](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17752)
 - [Ability to create import libs from def files](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17807)
@@ -94,6 +92,10 @@ compiler is missing these features:
 - [Ability to create static archives from object files](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9828)
 - Ability to compile C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ files
 
+However, a compiler built this way does provide a C backend, which may be
+useful for creating system packages of Zig projects using the system C
+toolchain. In such case, LLVM is not needed!
+
 ## Contributing
 
 [Donate monthly](https://ziglang.org/zsf/).
diff --git a/bootstrap.c b/bootstrap.c
index 35ad33d266..f083c1cc1c 100644
--- a/bootstrap.c
+++ b/bootstrap.c
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@ static void run(char **argv) {
     if (WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
         panic("child process failed");
 }
-
-static void run_execv(char **argv) {
-    if (execv(argv[0], argv) == -1 && errno == ENOENT) return;
-    perror("execv failed");
-}
 #endif
 
 static void print_and_run(const char **argv) {
@@ -87,9 +82,6 @@ static const char *get_host_triple(void) {
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
-    argv[0] = "./zig2";
-    run_execv(argv);
-
     const char *cc = get_c_compiler();
     const char *host_triple = get_host_triple();
 
@@ -188,7 +180,4 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         };
         print_and_run(child_argv);
     }
-
-    run_execv(argv);
-    panic("build script failed to create valid zig2 executable");
 }
diff --git a/ci/x86_64-linux-debug.sh b/ci/x86_64-linux-debug.sh
index bbab0c564d..6f3ebf642d 100755
--- a/ci/x86_64-linux-debug.sh
+++ b/ci/x86_64-linux-debug.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ git fetch --tags
 git clean -fd
 rm -rf zig-out
 cc -o bootstrap bootstrap.c
-./bootstrap build -Dno-lib
+./bootstrap
+./zig2 build -Dno-lib
 # In order to run these behavior tests we need to move the `@cImport` ones to somewhere else.
 # ./zig-out/bin/zig test test/behavior.zig
 
diff --git a/ci/x86_64-linux-release.sh b/ci/x86_64-linux-release.sh
index 61320ce0f9..22222c7740 100755
--- a/ci/x86_64-linux-release.sh
+++ b/ci/x86_64-linux-release.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ git fetch --tags
 git clean -fd
 rm -rf zig-out
 cc -o bootstrap bootstrap.c
-./bootstrap build -Dno-lib
+./bootstrap
+./zig2 build -Dno-lib
 # In order to run these behavior tests we need to move the `@cImport` ones to somewhere else.
 # ./zig-out/bin/zig test test/behavior.zig