diff --git a/README b/README
index 504f8374..bffed114 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Scribe
 
-Last Modified: 2010-Jun-18
+Last Modified: 2010-Oct-14
 
 
 Introduction
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ Requirements
 
 [libevent] Event Notification library
 [boost] Boost C++ library (version 1.36 or later)
-[thrift] Thrift framework
-[fb303] Facebook Bassline (included in thrift/contrib/fb303/)
+[thrift] Thrift framework (version 0.5.0 or later)
+[fb303] Facebook Bassline (included in contrib/fb303/)
    fb303 r697294 or later is required.
 [hadoop] optional. version 0.19.1 or higher (http://hadoop.apache.org)
 
@@ -82,14 +82,6 @@ Helpful tips:
  scribe or fb303, try setting the environment variable PYTHONPATH to the
  location of the installed packages.  This path gets output during
  'make install'. (Eg: PYTHONPATH='/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages').
--The current version of scribe_cat does not work with the stable version of
- thrift, as of 5th March 2010. To get it to work change
- log_entry = scribe.LogEntry(category=category, message=sys.stdin.read())
- to
- log_entry = scribe.LogEntry(dict(category=category, message=sys.stdin.read()))
- The current scribe_cat works with latest thrift code if you clone their dev
- repository.
-
 
 Resources
 =========
diff --git a/contrib/fb303/cpp/Makefile.am b/contrib/fb303/cpp/Makefile.am
index 45e1b3e3..f6ec051b 100644
--- a/contrib/fb303/cpp/Makefile.am
+++ b/contrib/fb303/cpp/Makefile.am
@@ -74,7 +74,13 @@ endif
 
 # Set up Thrift specific activity here.
 # We assume that a <name>+types.cpp will always be built from <name>.thrift.
-$(eval $(call thrift_template,$(srcdir),$(IFDIR)/fb303.thrift,--gen cpp ))
+$(eval $(call thrift_template,$(srcdir),$(IFDIR)/fb303.thrift,--gen cpp:pure_enums))
+
+include_fb303dir = $(includedir)/thrift/fb303
+include_fb303_HEADERS = FacebookBase.h ServiceTracker.h gen-cpp/FacebookService.h gen-cpp/fb303_constants.h gen-cpp/fb303_types.h
+
+include_fb303ifdir = $(prefix)/share/fb303/if
+include_fb303if_HEADERS = ../if/fb303.thrift
 
 BUILT_SOURCES = fb303style
 
diff --git a/if/bucketupdater.thrift b/if/bucketupdater.thrift
index f2cd6593..01ca1bae 100644
--- a/if/bucketupdater.thrift
+++ b/if/bucketupdater.thrift
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/local/bin/thrift --cpp --php
+#!/usr/local/bin/thrift --gen cpp:pure_enums --gen php
 
 ##  Copyright (c) 2009- Facebook
 ##
diff --git a/if/scribe.thrift b/if/scribe.thrift
index 6bdcea62..1476e48f 100644
--- a/if/scribe.thrift
+++ b/if/scribe.thrift
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/local/bin/thrift --cpp --php
+#!/usr/local/bin/thrift --gen cpp:pure_enums --gen php
 
 ##  Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Facebook
 ##
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ## See accompanying file LICENSE or visit the Scribe site at:
 ## http://developers.facebook.com/scribe/
 
-include "fb303.thrift"
+include "fb303/if/fb303.thrift"
 
 namespace cpp scribe.thrift
 namespace java scribe.thrift
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 156f1bd4..1a6409a7 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ all:
 # hadoop_home
 #
 THRIFT = $(thrift_home)/bin/thrift
+THRIFT_INCLUDES = -I $(fb303_home)/share/
+THRIFT_OPTS = $(THRIFT_INCLUDES) --gen cpp:pure_enums --gen py --gen php --gen java
 THRIFT_CPPFLAGS = -I$(thrift_home)/include -I$(thrift_home)/include/thrift
 
 # User defined conditionals and conditonal statements set up in configure.ac.
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ endif
 
 
 # Set libraries external to this component.
-EXTERNAL_LIBS = -L$(thrift_home)/lib -L$(fb303_home)/cpp -L$(hadoop_home)/lib -lfb303 -lthrift -lthriftnb
+EXTERNAL_LIBS = -L$(thrift_home)/lib -L$(fb303_home)/lib -L$(hadoop_home)/lib -lfb303 -lthrift -lthriftnb
 EXTERNAL_LIBS += -levent -lpthread
 if USE_SCRIBE_HDFS
   EXTERNAL_LIBS += -lhdfs -ljvm
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ endif
 # USE flags AM_CXXFLAGS, AM_CFLAGS, AM_CPPFLAGS, AM_LDFLAGS, LDADD in this section.
 
 AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/contrib
-AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(fb303_home)/cpp/gen-cpp
+AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(fb303_home)/include/thrift/fb303
 AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(hadoop_home)/include
 AM_CPPFLAGS += $(BOOST_CPPFLAGS)
 AM_CPPFLAGS += $(THRIFT_CPPFLAGS)
@@ -114,8 +116,8 @@ endif
 # Set up Thrift specific activity here.
 # We assume that a <name>+types.cpp will always be built from <name>.thrift.
 
-$(eval $(call thrift_template,.,$(srcdir)/../if/scribe.thrift, -I $(fb303_home)/if/ --gen cpp --gen py --gen php --gen java))
-$(eval $(call thrift_template,.,$(srcdir)/../if/bucketupdater.thrift, -I $(fb303_home)/if/ --gen cpp --gen py --gen php --gen java))
+$(eval $(call thrift_template,.,$(srcdir)/../if/scribe.thrift,$(THRIFT_OPTS)))
+$(eval $(call thrift_template,.,$(srcdir)/../if/bucketupdater.thrift,$(THRIFT_OPTS)))
 
 if FACEBOOK
   $(eval $(call thrift_template,.,$(smc_home)/if/ServiceManager.thrift,--gen cpp))