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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index f3acbe74..7ca9f96f 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -70,16 +70,11 @@
 </bookinfo>
 
 
-  <preface id=preface>
-    <title>About the guidelines</title>
-
+<preface id="preface"><title>Preface</title>
     <para>The purpose of this guidelines is to provide a reference for
     the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the
     different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
 
-
-    <section> <title>Copyright</title>
-
         <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000 2001
                 2002
         Karl DeBisschop, Ethan Galstad, Hugo Gayosso, Stanley Hopcroft, 
@@ -89,13 +84,34 @@
         copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this
         permission notice are preserved on all copies.</para>
 
-                <para>The plugins themselves are copyrighted by their respective
-                authors.</para>
-
-    </section>
+        <para>The plugins themselves are copyrighted by their respective
+        authors.</para>
 </preface>
 
 <article>
+<section id="DevRequirements"><title>Development platform requirements</title>
+        <para>
+        While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release is very small,
+        to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the 
+        minimum levels of software required:
+
+        <literallayout>
+        gnu make 3.79
+        automake 1.6
+        autoconf 2.52
+        gettext 0.11.5
+        </literallayout>
+
+        To compile from CVS, after you have checked out the code, run:
+        <literallayout>
+        tools/setup
+        ./configure
+        make
+        make install
+        </literallayout>
+        </para>
+</section>
+
 <section id="PlugOutput"><title>Plugin Output for Nagios</title>
         
                 <para>You should always print something to STDOUT that tells if the