diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 03ab4f7..d8314b0 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 On Building HTrace
 
-Requires go version 1.3.1 or 1.4. Also requires godep. See hbase-core/src/go/BUILDING.txt for more.
-Requires Java 1.7 at least.
+Requires the go programming language, version 1.3 or higher.  See
+htrace-core/src/go/BUILDING.txt for more information.
+
+Requires Java 1.6 at least.
+
 Requires maven 3.x.
 
 After installing go, to build, run:
diff --git a/htrace-core/src/go/BUILDING.txt b/htrace-core/src/go/BUILDING.txt
index bb3eb88..d54d410 100644
--- a/htrace-core/src/go/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/htrace-core/src/go/BUILDING.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 You will need to install:
 * The Go programming language
 * The development package for leveldb (some Linux distros call this "leveldb-devel") containing libleveldb.so
-* Version 0 of the "godep" tool from https://github.com/tools/godep/releases
 
 htraced requires libleveldb.so to be in your shared library path in order to run.
 You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the path for this library, or simply install