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+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 This is Mono.
 
-1. Installation
-2. Using Mono
-3. Directory Roadmap
+	1. Installation
+	2. Using Mono
+	3. Directory Roadmap
 
 1. Compilation and Installation
 ===============================
@@ -17,23 +17,25 @@ This is Mono.
 
 		  Available from: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/pkgconfig
 
-		* glib 2.0
+		* glib 2.4
 
 		  Available from: http://www.gtk.org/
 
-	Optional dependencies:
+	On Itanium, you must obtain libunwind:
+
+		http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/libunwind/download.php4
 
-	 	* ICU library
+	On Solaris, make sure that you used GNU tar to unpack this package, as
+	Solaris tar will not unpack this correctly, and you will get strange errors.
 
-		  http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html
+	On Solaris, make sure that you use the GNU toolchain to build the software.
 
-		  You will need this one to get complete support for the international
-		  features of the .NET Framework.
+	Optional dependencies:
 
-		* Cairo and libgdiplus
+		* libgdiplus
 
 		  If you want to get support for System.Drawing, you will need to get
-		  both Libgdiplus and Cairo.
+		  Libgdiplus.
 
     b. Building the Software
     ------------------------
@@ -45,13 +47,8 @@ This is Mono.
 		make
 		make install
 
-	Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC and PowerPC systems.
-	The various commands that ship with Mono default to the JIT engine
-	on x86 and SPARC, to turn it on for PPC systems, use the --with-jit=yes 
-	command line option to configure.
-
-	MacOS X Users: you will need to download the latest Boehm GC
-	Alpha release for garbage collection to work properly.
+	Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390, AMD64, ARM
+	and PowerPC systems.
 
 	If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
 	Mono installation.  To upgrade your installation, unpack both
@@ -96,10 +93,11 @@ This is Mono.
 
 	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.
+	distribution and running autogen.sh; make; make install in the
+	mono module directory.
 
-	You can also try a slightly more risky approach that should work
-	almost all the time.  
+	You can also try a slightly more risky approach: this may not work,
+	so start from the released tarball as detailed above.
 
 	This works by first getting the latest version of the 'monolite'
 	distribution, which contains just enough to run the 'mcs'
@@ -150,8 +148,6 @@ This is Mono.
 	* runtime engine
 
 		mono program.exe
-	  or
-		mint program.exe
 
 	* C# compiler
 
@@ -167,9 +163,6 @@ This is Mono.
 3. Directory Roadmap
 ====================
 
-	doc/
-		Contains the web site contents.
-
 	docs/
 		Technical documents about the Mono runtime.
 
@@ -182,7 +175,7 @@ This is Mono.
 		metadata/
 			The object system and metadata reader.
 
-		jit/
+		mini/
 			The Just in Time Compiler.
 
 		dis/
@@ -200,7 +193,7 @@ This is Mono.
 			definition of the CIL bytecodes.
 
 		interp/
-			Interpreter for CLI executables.
+			Interpreter for CLI executables (obsolete).
 
 		arch/
 			Architecture specific portions.
@@ -217,3 +210,4 @@ This is Mono.
 
 		A directory that contains the Makefiles that link the
 		mono/ and mcs/ build systems.
+