diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 807aa841df..0e0172c4d8 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-                   Last Updated: March 23, 2013
+                   Last Updated: Sept 17, 2014
 
 This file outlines what it takes to build Autopsy from source.
 
@@ -100,22 +100,29 @@ BACKGROUND:
 Here are some notes to shed some light on what is going on during
 the build process.
 
-- The Sleuth Kit Java datamodel JAR file has native libraries
-that are copied into it. 
+- The Sleuth Kit Java datamodel JAR file has native JNI libraries
+that are copied into it.   These JNI libraries have dependencies on
+libewf and zlib.  On non-Windows platforms, the JNI library also has
+a dependency on libtsk (on Windows, it is compiled into libtsk_jni).
 
 - NetBeans uses ant to build Autopsy.  The build target copies the
 TSK datamodel JAR file into the project.  If you want to use the
 debug version of the TSK dll, then there is a different ant target
-in TSK to copy the debug versions of the dlls. 
+in the TSK datamodel to copy the debug versions of the dlls. 
 
-- On a Windows system, the ant target copies all needed libraries
-to the autopsy folder.  On a Unix system, the ant taget copies only
-the JNI library and then relies on the other libraries (libtsk,
-libewf, zilb, etc.) to be installed on the system in their standard
-locations (i.e. /usr/local).
+- On a Windows system, the compile-time ant target copies the 
+dependency libraries into the Autopsy code structure so that they can
+be found when Autopsy is run and packaged.  At run-time, the native
+library inside of the JAR file will be extracted and used. 
+
+- On a Unix system, the ant taget copies only the JNI library and
+then relies on the other libraries (libtsk, libewf, zilb, etc.) to
+be installed on the system in their standard locations (i.e.
+/usr/local).
 
 - Everytime that you do a source code update of TSK, make sure you
-rebuild both the dll and the JAR file.
+rebuild both the libtsk_dll, the JAR file, and then rebuild Autopsy 
+so that it copies the latest data model JAR file. 
 
 
 ---------------
diff --git a/build-unix.xml b/build-unix.xml
index 93d607aa1a..afd73c6d89 100644
--- a/build-unix.xml
+++ b/build-unix.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
         <available file="${env.TSK_HOME}/bindings/java/jni/.libs/libtsk_jni.dylib" property="tsk_dylib.present"/>
         <available file="${env.TSK_HOME}/bindings/java/jni/.libs/libtsk_jni.so" property="tsk_so.present"/>
     </target>
-    
+   
+    <!-- BC: NOTE I'm not sure this copying is required anymore because the
+      TSK Data model JAR file should have the libraries inside of it.  We've 
+      made that change w/out really maintaining the non-Windows platforms. -->
     <!-- OS X -->
     <target name="copyTskLibs_dylib" depends="testTSKLibs" if="tsk_dylib.present">
         <property environment="env"/>
diff --git a/build-windows.xml b/build-windows.xml
index 16f99952d3..d1b34d586d 100644
--- a/build-windows.xml
+++ b/build-windows.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
         <available property="win32.TskLib.exists" type="dir" file="${win32.TskLib.path}" />
     </target>
 
+    <!-- The following copy the libtsk_jni dependencies to the Autopsy
+         folder structure.  libtsk_jni is inside of the JAR file and contains
+         libtsk and the JNI code. -->
     <!-- copy 64-bit dlls into the installer folder -->
     <target name="copyWinTskLibs64ToBaseDir" if="win64.TskLib.exists">
         <fileset dir="${win64.TskLib.path}" id="win64dlls">