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+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Ion
 ===
 
-Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2007.
+Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2009.
 
 tuomov at iki.fi
 
@@ -12,22 +12,14 @@ tuomov at iki.fi
 Building and installing
 -----------------------
 
-1. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed:
+1. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed (along
+   with, of course, standard X11 and libc stuff).
 
-    * GNU make
-    * Lua 5.1 (see <http://www.lua.org/>). 
+    * GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
+    * Lua 5.1 <http://www.lua.org/>
+    * gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
 
-2. a) Edit `system.mk` to suit your system. Most GNU/Linux users should
-      need very few changes.
-
-   b) Alternatively, go to the directory `build/ac`, run `autoreconf`
-      and then `./configure`. Switch back to the top lvel directory 
-      afterwards. See `build/ac/README.autoconf` for details on parameters, 
-      especially if you are using the Debian Lua packages. If you try 
-      this method and it fails for some reason, please make sure 
-      `build/ac/system-ac.mk` does not exist before falling back to
-      alternative a). Also in such a case, find someone else to complain
-      to: I (tuomov) will have nothing to do with autoconf.
+2. Edit `system.mk` to suit your system. 
 
 3. If you want to build some extra modules now or do not want to build
    some of the standard modules, edit `modulelist.mk`.
@@ -80,9 +72,9 @@ Some optional installation steps
 
         15 05 * * * $SHAREDIR/ion-completeman -mksyscache
 
-   Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk` (or `system-ac.mk`
-   if you used autoconf). This example runs daily at 05:15, but you may 
-   modify the  run times to your needs; see the crontab manual. 
+   Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk`. This example 
+   runs daily at 05:15, but you may modify the  run times to your needs;
+   see the crontab manual. 
    
    If you can't or do not want to build a system-wide man page cache, run
    `crontab -e` as your normal user and replace `-mksyscache` with
@@ -92,7 +84,7 @@ Some optional installation steps
    `-mk*cache` argument once manually to build the initial cache.
    
    If the `MANPATH` environment variable is not set on your system and it
-    does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything 
+   does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything 
    sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MANPATH` environment
    variable to the list of paths where the system stores manual pages.
 
@@ -118,16 +110,13 @@ Credits
 
 Ion was written by Tuomo Valkonen.
 
-The autoconf script written by Tom Payne for the most part.
-
 The dock module was written by Tom Payne and Per Olofsson.
 
 `utils/ion-completefile/ion-completefile.c` is based on editline, (c)
 1992 Simmule Turner and Rich Salz. See the file for details.
 
-The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on was apparently originally 
-written by Tomohiro Kubota; see
-<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-examples.en.html#s13.4.5>.
+The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on seems to have been originally
+written by Tomohiro Kubota, but see the file for details.
 
 Various (minor) patches have been contributed by other individuals 
 unlisted  here. See the mailing list archives and the darcs source