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@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ git clone https://gitlab.engr.illinois.edu/llvm/hpvm-release.git/
 cd hpvm-release
 ```
 
-HPVM installer script can be used to download, configure and build HPVM along with LLVM and other subprojects including Clang. 
+HPVM installer script can be used to download, configure and build HPVM along with LLVM and Clang. 
 ```shell
 cd hpvm
 bash install.sh
 ```
-Specifically, the HPVM installer downloads LLVM, Clang, libcxx and libcxxabi, copies HPVM source into 
+Specifically, the HPVM installer downloads LLVM, and Clang, copies HPVM source into 
 llvm/tools and builds the entire tree. It also builds a modified LLVM C-Backend, based on the one maintained by [Julia Computing](https://github.com/JuliaComputing/llvm-cbe), as a part of HPVM and is currently used 
 to generate OpenCL kernels for GPUs.