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@@ -111,6 +111,17 @@
     <h4><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></h4>
     <!--=====================================================================-->
     <p>
+
+    Unpacking the distribution requires the following tools:
+    <dl compact>
+        <dt>GNU Zip (gzip)
+        <dt>GNU Tar
+        <dd>
+        These tools are needed to uncompress and unarchive the software.
+        Regular Solaris <tt>tar</tt> may work for unpacking the TAR archive but
+        is untested.
+    </dl>
+
     Compiling LLVM requires that you have several different software packages
     installed:
 
@@ -247,10 +258,12 @@
         <dt>LLVMGCCDIR
         <dd>
         This is the pathname to the location where the LLVM C Front End will
-        be installed.  Note that  the C front end does not need to be installed
+        be installed.  Note that the C front end does not need to be installed
         during the LLVM suite build; you will just need to know where it will
         go for configuring the build system and running the test suite later.
         <p>
+	For the pre-built binaries, the LLVMGCCDIR is
+        <tt>cfrontend/<platform>/llvm-gcc</tt>.
 
         <dt>GCCSRC
         <dd>