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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -63,47 +63,84 @@ This is Mono.
 		mv mcs-XXX mcs
 		cd mono
 		./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
-		make bootstrap 
+		make
 
-    c. Upgrade from CVS
-    -------------------
+    c. Building the software from SVN
+    ---------------------------------
 
-	If you are upgrading from CVS you will need an existing Mono installation.
-	First verify that you have a working installation:
+	If you are building the software from SVN, make sure that you
+	have up-to-date mcs and mono sources:
 
-		echo 'class X { static void Main () { System.Console.Write("OK");}}' > x.cs
+		svn co svn+ssh://USER@mono-cvs.ximian.com/source/trunk/mono
+		svn co svn+ssh://USER@mono-cvs.ximian.com/source/trunk/mcs
 
-	Compile:
+	Then, go into the mono directory, and configure:
 
-		mcs x.cs
+		cd mono
+		./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
+		make
 
-	And run:
+	This will automatically go into the mcs/ tree and build the
+	binaries there.
 
-		mono x.exe
+	This assumes that you have a working mono installation, and that
+	there's a C# compiler named 'mcs', and a corresponding IL
+	runtime called 'mono'.  You can use two make variables
+	EXTERNAL_MCS and EXTERNAL_RUNTIME to override these.  e.g., you
+	can say
 
-	If you get the output `OK' and no errors, you are ready to start your CVS upgrade.
+	  make EXTERNAL_MCS=/foo/bar/mcs EXTERNAL_RUNTIME=/somewhere/else/mono
+	
+	If you don't have a working Mono installation
+	---------------------------------------------
 
-	First, make sure that you have up-to-date mcs and mono sources:
+	If you don't have a working Mono installation, an obvious choice
+	is to install the latest released packages of 'mono' for your
+	distribution and try from the beginning.
 
-		cvs co mono mcs
+	You can also try a slightly more risky approach that should work
+	almost all the time.  
 
-	Then, go into the mono directory, and configure:
+	This works by first getting the latest version of the 'monolite'
+	distribution, which contains just enough to run the 'mcs'
+	compiler.  You do this with:
 
-		cd mono
-		./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
+		make get-monolite-latest
 
-	Then compile using the special target `bootstrap':
+	This will download and automatically gunzip and untar the
+	tarball, and place the files appropriately so that you can then
+	just run:
 
-		make bootstrap
-	
-	You can now install it:
+		make
 
-		make install
+	To ensure that you're using the 'monolite' distribution, you can
+	also try passing EXTERNAL_MCS=false on the make command-line.
 
-	This step will compile and install at the same time.
+	Testing and Installation
+	 ------------------------
 
-	Failure to follow these steps will result in a broken installation. 
+	You can run (part of) the mono and mcs testsuites with the command:
 
+		make check
+
+	All tests should pass.  
+
+	If you want more extensive tests, including those that test the
+	class libraries, you need to re-run 'configure' with the
+	'--enable-nunit-tests' flag, and try
+
+		make -k check
+
+	Expect to find a few testsuite failures.  As a sanity check, you
+	can compare the failures you got with
+
+		http://go-mono.com/tests/displayTestResults.php
+
+	You can now install mono with:
+
+		make install
+
+	Failure to follow these steps may result in a broken installation. 
 
 2. Using Mono
 =============
@@ -178,7 +215,5 @@ This is Mono.
 
 	runtime/
 
-		A directory holding a pre-compiled version of the Mono
-		runtime.
-
-
+		A directory that contains the Makefiles that link the
+		mono/ and mcs/ build systems.