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+[jQuery](http://jquery.com/) - New Wave Javascript
+================================
+
+What you need to build your own jQuery
+---------------------------------------
+* Make sure that you have Java installed (if you want to build a minified version of jQuery).
+If not, go to this page and download "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0"  
+[http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp](http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp)
+
+* You now have two options for building jQuery, if you have access to common UNIX commands (like `make`, `mkdir`, `rm`, `cat`, and `echo`) then simply type `make` to build all the components.
+
+* The other option is if you have Ant installed (or are on Windows and don't have access to make). You can download Ant from here: [http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi](http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi)
+If you do have Ant, everytime (in this README) that I say 'make', do 'ant' instead - it works identically (for all intents and purposes).
+
+How to build your own jQuery
+-----------------------------
+
+In the main directory of the distribution (the one that this file is in), type
+the following to make all versions of jQuery:
+
+`make`
+
+Here are each of the individual items that are buildable from the Makefile.
+
+`make init`
+
+Pull in all the external dependencies (QUnit, Sizzle) for the project.
+
+`make jquery`
+
+The standard, uncompressed, jQuery code.  
+Makes: ./dist/jquery.js
+
+`make min`
+
+A compressed version of jQuery (made the YUI Minifier).  
+Makes: ./dist/jquery.min.js
+
+`make selector`
+
+Builds the selector library for jQuery from Sizzle.  
+Makes: ./src/selector.js
+
+Finally, you can remove all the built files using the command:
+  
+`make clean`
+
+Additionally, if you want to install jQuery to a location that is not this
+directory, you can specify the PREFIX directory, for example:
+  
+`make PREFIX=/home/john/test/`
+
+OR
+
+`make PREFIX=~/www/ docs`
+
+If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on the jQuery
+mailing list, which can be found here:  
+[http://docs.jquery.com/Discussion](http://docs.jquery.com/Discussion)