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+++ b/README
@@ -16,20 +16,48 @@ Information for developers of GHC can be found here:
 Getting the Source
 ==================
 
-First get the GHC darcs repository:
+There are two ways to get a source tree:
 
-   $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
+  1. Download source tarballs
+  ---------------------------
 
-Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository 
-to get the other repositories:
+  The GHC source distribution comes in two parts:
 
-   $ cd ghc
-   $ sh darcs-all
+      ghc-<version>-src.tar.bz2
+      ghc-<version>-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
 
-This grabs the "core" packages by default.  To get the full set of
-packages (which will probably take a long time to build), instead say
+  You only need the first one, which contains GHC itself and
+  the "core" libraries.  
 
-   $ sh darcs-all --extra get
+  The extralibs package contains a bunch of optional libraries.  If
+  you want, you can unpack this over the top of your source tree, and
+  these extra libraries will be built and installed automatically.
+  Make sure you unpack the extralibs package before running configure
+  (see below).
+
+  If you don't build extralibs now, you can add them later by building
+  and installing individual packages using Cabal.
+
+  2. Get the source from darcs
+  ----------------------------
+
+  First get the GHC darcs repository:
+
+    $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
+
+  Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository 
+  to get the other repositories:
+
+     $ cd ghc
+     $ sh darcs-all get
+
+  This grabs the "core" packages by default.  To get the full set of
+  packages, instead say
+
+     $ sh darcs-all --extra get
+
+  This also downloads the libraries that are normally bundled in the
+  "extralibs" package (see above).
 
 
 Building & Installing
@@ -61,21 +89,18 @@ optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).
 It can take a long time.  To customise the build, see the file
 HACKING.
 
-For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3],
-which is also available in source form (DocBook XML) in docs/building.
+For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3].
 
 
 References
 ==========
 
- [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/		GHC Home Page
- [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc	GHC Developer's Wiki
- [3] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/index.html
-						Building Guide
-
- [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/		Happy
- [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/		Alex
- [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/		Haddock
+ [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/                        GHC Home Page
+ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc                GHC Developer's Wiki
+ [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building  Building Guide
+ [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/                      Happy
+ [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/                       Alex
+ [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/                    Haddock
 
 
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