diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 698b91f..95a8789 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     <property file="build.properties" />
 
     <property name="jar.dir" value="lib"/>
+    <property name="systemjar.dir" value="/usr/share/java"/>
     <property name="plugin.dir" value="plugin"/>
     <property name="build.dir" value="build"/>
     <property name="junit.dir" value="build/junit"/>
@@ -59,13 +60,24 @@
     <property name="version.props.file" value="${build.dir}/classes/edu/umd/cs/findbugs/version.properties"/>
 
     <path id="findbugs.classpath">
-        <fileset dir="${jar.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/ant.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/objectweb-asm/asm-all.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/findbugs-bcel.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/apache-commons-lang.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/dom4j.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/jaxen.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/jcip-annotations.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/jdepend.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/jFormatString.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/jsr-305.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/junit.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/hamcrest/core.jar" />
     </path>
 
     <path id="tools.classpath">
         <pathelement location="${classes.dir}"/>
         <pathelement location="${jar.dir}/findbugs.jar"/>
-        <pathelement location="${jar.dir}/jdepend-2.9.jar"/>
+        <pathelement location="${systemjar.dir}/jdepend.jar"/>
         <path refid="findbugs.classpath"/>
     </path>
 
@@ -122,13 +134,6 @@
                 </javac>
     </target>
     <target name="classes" depends="init">
-        <echo>Requires JDK 7.x (not 8!), using: ${ant.java.version}</echo>
-        <fail message="Requires JDK 7.x (not 8!), using: ${ant.java.version}">
-             <condition>
-                 <equals arg1="1.8" arg2="${ant.java.version}"/>
-             </condition>
-         </fail>
-
         <!-- Compile Java source files. -->
         <echo level="info" message="compiling findbugs"/>
         <javac
@@ -298,8 +303,6 @@
             <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
                 <include name="**/annotations/*.java"/>
             </fileset>
-            <zipfileset src="${jar.dir}/jcip-annotations.jar" excludes="META-INF/**,**/*.html"/>
-            <zipfileset src="${jar.dir}/jsr305.jar" excludes="META-INF/**,**/*.html"/>
         </jar>
     </target>
 
@@ -634,25 +637,13 @@
 
     <!-- Get version properties.  -->
 
-    <target name="-get-git-revision">
-    <exec executable="git" spawn="false" outputproperty="gitrnum">
-            <arg value="log"/>
-            <arg value="--pretty=format:%h"/>
-            <arg value="-n"/>
-            <arg value="1"/>
-    </exec>
-        <echo>Got git revision ${gitrnum}</echo>
-    </target>
-
-
-    <target name="version" depends="classes,-get-git-revision" >
-        <echo>${gitrnum}</echo>
+    <target name="version" depends="classes" >
         <java classpathref="tools.classpath"
               output="${version.props.file}"
               classname="edu.umd.cs.findbugs.Version"
               failonerror="true">
             <arg value="-props"/>
-            <sysproperty key="git.revision" value="${gitrnum}"/>
+            <sysproperty key="git.revision" value="Unknown"/>
         </java>
 
         <loadproperties srcfile="${version.props.file}"/>
diff --git a/design/architecture/Makefile b/design/architecture/Makefile
index 8765025..0fc7869 100644
--- a/design/architecture/Makefile
+++ b/design/architecture/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ PDFS = $(TEX_SRCS:.tex=.pdf)
 %.pdf : %.tex
 	pdflatex $*
 	pdflatex $*
+	pdflatex $*
 
 all : $(PDFS)