diff -Naur jogl.orig/make/build.xml jogl/make/build.xml
--- jogl.orig/make/build.xml	2007-02-13 17:45:16.000000000 +1300
+++ jogl/make/build.xml	2007-03-14 22:55:50.000000000 +1300
@@ -127,7 +127,18 @@
         <property name="gluegen.build.xml" value="${gluegen.make.dir}/build.xml" />
         <property name="gluegen.jar" value="../../gluegen/build/gluegen.jar" />
         <property name="gluegen-rt.jar" value="../../gluegen/build/gluegen-rt.jar" />
-                                                
+	<!-- This property is used to skip building gluegen if the jar files
+	   - are already available on the system and have been overridden
+	   - by the user. The purpose is to allow linux distro's to uncouple
+	   - gluegen from jogl.
+	  -->
+	<condition property="gluegen.prebuilt" >
+		<and>
+			<available file="${gluegen.jar}" />
+			<available file="${gluegen-rt.jar}" />
+		</and>
+	</condition>
+
         <!-- Names of directories relative to the project root.
              Some of these are used in FileMappers later for dependence information
              and need exact string matching, which is why they use file.separator
@@ -479,7 +490,7 @@
     <!--
        - Build GlueGen
       -->
-    <target name="build.gluegen" depends="init">
+    <target name="build.gluegen" depends="init" unless="gluegen.prebuilt">
         <!-- Run the GlueGen build to ensure that the GlueGen ANT task
            - has been built. -->
         <!-- FIXME: remove passing down of antlr.jar when gluegen.properties is on all