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@@ -6,30 +6,38 @@ For more information about ATK and accessibility in GNOME, see:
 Dependencies
 ============
 
-ATK requires GLib >= 2.31.2. Information about GLib is available from
-http://www.gtk.org/.
+ATK requires GLib-2.0.0 or better. Information about GLib
+is available from http://www.gtk.org/.
 
-Getting the source code
-=======================
+Building
+========
 
-You can get the source code of each ATK release as a tarball:
-https://download.gnome.org/sources/atk/
+To configure ATK, run the ./configure script, then 'make'; and 
+'make install'. If you are installing into a location where you don't have
+write permission, you'll have to become root before running 
+'make install'.
 
-You can also clone the ATK master branch from GNOME repository:
-https://git.gnome.org/browse/atk
+General information about building ATK and related libraries can
+be found at:
 
-Building
-========
+  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html
 
-To buid ATK from a release tarball, the usual is using autotool, as:
+To compile a CVS version of atk 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:
 
-  $ ./configure
-  $ make
-  # make install
+        cvsroot/atk# ./autogen.sh
+  
+Basically this does the following for you:
 
-To build ATK from a Git clone, run the autogen.sh script instead of
-the configure one. Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure
-you have libtool in your path.
+        cvsroot/atk# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+
+        The above commands create the "configure" script.  Now you
+        can run the configure script in cvsroot/atk 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
@@ -38,9 +46,8 @@ to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
 How to report bugs
 ==================
 
-Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system:
-  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=atk
-
-You will need to create an account for yourself.
+Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
+(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product atk.) You will need to create an
+account for yourself.
 
 You can also mail the mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org