diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 89262bf53f..f77b675c7e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 *.pyc
-/bin/plovr*.jar
 /build
 /examples/*.html.png
 /examples/example-list.js
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index b71fa93f1a..ed4fa20ef9 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ SRC = [path
        if path.endswith('.js')
        if path not in SHADER_SRC]
 
-PLOVR_JAR = 'bin/plovr-eba786b34df9.jar'
+PLOVR_JAR = 'build/plovr-eba786b34df9.jar'
 PLOVR_JAR_MD5 = '20eac8ccc4578676511cf7ccbfc65100'
 
 PROJ4JS = 'build/proj4js/lib/proj4js-combined.js'
@@ -410,8 +410,10 @@ virtual('plovr', PLOVR_JAR)
 
 @target(PLOVR_JAR, clean=False)
 def plovr_jar(t):
+    t.info('downloading %r', t.name)
     t.download('https://plovr.googlecode.com/files/' +
                os.path.basename(PLOVR_JAR), md5=PLOVR_JAR_MD5)
+    t.info('downloaded %r', t.name)
 
 
 @target('gh-pages', 'host-examples', 'doc', phony=True)
@@ -530,8 +532,10 @@ def proj4js(t):
 
 @target(PROJ4JS_ZIP, clean=False)
 def proj4js_zip(t):
+    t.info('downloading %r', t.name)
     t.download('http://download.osgeo.org/proj4js/' +
                os.path.basename(t.name), md5=PROJ4JS_ZIP_MD5)
+    t.info('downloaded %r', t.name)
 
 
 @target('test', INTERNAL_SRC, PROJ4JS, 'build/test/requireall.js', phony=True)