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@@ -2,26 +2,53 @@ If you want to hack on the Gtk+ project, it will make you life easier
 to have the following packages installed:
 
        - GNU autoconf 2.12
-       - GNU automake 1.2d
-               Available in ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey
-       - GNU libtool 1.0h
-               Available in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/
+       - GNU automake 1.3
+               (Beta releases are at ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey)
+       - GNU libtool 1.2b
+       - indent (GNU indent 1.9.1 is known good)
 
-These should be available by ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu or any of the
+These should be available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org or any of the
 fine GNU mirrors.  Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
 
-If you are accessing gtk+ via CVS, then you will need to take several
-steps to get it to compile.  These are:
+In order to get CVS gtk+ installed on your system, you need to have
+the most recent CVS version of glib installed as well.
+The installation process of glib is similar to that of gtk+, but
+needs to be fulfilled prior to installation of gtk+.
 
-       cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+To compile a CVS version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
+several steps to setup the tree for compilation.  You can do all these
+steps at once by running:
 
-The "configure" script will not exist until you take these steps.
+        cvsroot/gtk+# ./autogen.sh
+   
+Basically this does the following for you:
 
-Before running configure, make sure you have libtool in your path
+       cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+
+        The above commands create the "configure" script.  Now you
+       can run the configure script in cvsroot/gtk+ to create all
+       the Makefiles.
+
+Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool 
+in your path.  
+
+Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you.  If you wish to pass
+options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
+to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
+
+If at all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
+gtk+ and glib.  You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from cvs:
+
+   $ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.gimp.org:/debian/home/gnomecvs'
+   $ cvs login
+     (there is no password, just hit return)
+   $ cvs -z9 checkout glib
+   $ cvs -z9 checkout gtk+
 
 Please submit patches to the gtk-list@redhat.com mailing list (you must
 subscribe before you post, e-mail gtk-list-request@redhat.com with a
-subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted. If at
-all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
-gtk+; the README file has the CVSROOT information. 
+subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted.
+Patches that you wish to go into the distribution should also be uploaded 
+to ftp://ftp.gimp.org/incoming.  Follow the rules there for naming your
+patches.