diff --git a/db/gemfire/lib/README.txt b/db/gemfire/lib/README.txt
index 9f815a12326eced433c57db41967f3ed15fca75c..46697a105dd39c9d87cc563d73b61ba8e9a50c37 100644
--- a/db/gemfire/lib/README.txt
+++ b/db/gemfire/lib/README.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This directory should contain gemfire.jar OR gemfire.jar can be added to CLASSPATH for compiling GemFireClient.
+This directory should contain gemfire.jar for compiling GemFireClient.
 
 GemFireClient can be compiled using target:
 $ ant dbcompile-gemfire