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+If you want to hack on GNU Classpath it will make things easier if you
+have the following installed:
+
+        - GNU autoconf 2.13
+        - GNU automake 1.4
+        - GNU libtool 1.3.3
+        - Kaffe 1.0.5+
+        - GTK 1.2
+        - IBM jikes 1.0.9+
+
+If you start from the current CVS version, you will have to run the
+following from the toplevel directory.
+
+        aclocal; autoheader; automake; autoconf
+
+Next you run configure.  Options you'll probably want to specify
+include --with-jikes, --with-javah={path to kaffeh},
+--with-classlib={path to Klasses.jar}
+
+Eventually jikes should contain a patch for placing .u (dependency
+files) where -d would also place class files.
+
+The following is a rough list of tasks which need to be completed:
+
+        * Port to new platforms.  Most of us develop on GNU/Linux so
+          our platform support may not be up to par.
+
+        * java.awt.image needs to be stubbed out.
+
+        * java.awt does not work yet.        
+
+        * java.math needs some work.
+
+        * GNU Classpath needs to work with Kaffe.  There is
+          documentation on the efforts made to originally make
+          Classpath work with Japhar in docs/ and on the web-site.
+
+        * Update the web-site
+
+        * Make multiple 'dist' targets for different packages
+          including java.awt, java.lang, etc. but also for
+          gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.
+
+        * Fix the build so that distributions won't have the same high
+          requires as CVS.  Shouldn't be much left to do this.
+
+        * Create configure, etc. for the swing project.
+
+        * There are compiling errors located in lib/errors.txt (you
+          have to try compiling first).
+
+        * native compilation for the gtk peers is failing and needs to
+          be fixed.
+
+If you have any questions, suggestions, etc., send them to
+<classpath@gnu.org>.