From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:23:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update email address, gzip 1.3 location, and Sparc GCC bugs.
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Update email address, gzip 1.3 location, and Sparc GCC bugs.
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index d8c88a8..2ada686 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ to the report address; rather take special arrangement with the maintainer.
 Your feedback will help us to make a better and more portable package.
 Consider documentation errors as bugs, and report them as such.  If you
 develop anything pertaining to `tar' or have suggestions, let us know
-and share your findings by writing at `tar-forum@iro.umontreal.ca'.
+and share your findings by writing to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
 
-.--------------------.
-| Installation hints |
-`--------------------'
+
+Installation hints
+------------------
 
 Here are a few hints which might help installing `tar' on some systems.
 
@@ -78,16 +78,17 @@ If you see the following symptoms:
    tar: Child returned status 2
 
 then you have encountered a gzip incompatibility that should be fixed
-in gzip 1.3, which is not yet available as of this writing.  You can
-work around the incompatibility by using a shell command like
-`gzip -d <file.tar.gz | tar -xzf -'.
+in gzip test version 1.3, which as of this writing is available at
+<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.  You can work around the
+incompatibility by using a shell command like
+ `gzip -d <file.tar.gz | tar -xzf -'.
 
 * Solaris issues.
 
-If you are compiling with GCC, you may need to upgrade GCC to 2.95.2
-or later before compiling GNU tar, as GNU tar exercises many features
-that can cause problems with older GCC versions, mostly having to do
-with mutations to Solaris system include files.
+GNU tar exercises many features that can cause problems with older GCC
+versions.  In particular, GCC 2.8.1 (sparc, -O1 or -O2) is known to
+miscompile GNU tar.  No compiler-related problems have been reported
+when using GCC 2.95.2 or later.
 
 Recent versions of Solaris tar sport a new -E option to generate
 extended headers in an undocumented format.  GNU tar does not
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ to a value from the table below, before configuration (see `INSTALL').
 	Platform	Compiler	LDFLAGS
 
 	(any)		Gnu C		-static
-	AIX		(vendor)	"-bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp"
+	AIX		(vendor)	-bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp
 	HPUX		(vendor)	-Wl,-a,archive
 	IRIX		(vendor)	-non_shared
 	OSF		(vendor)	-non_shared
@@ -114,12 +115,12 @@ to a value from the table below, before configuration (see `INSTALL').
 	Solaris		(vendor)	-Bstatic
 	SunOS		(vendor)	-Bstatic
 
-* Failed `incremen.sh'.
+* Failed test `incremen.sh'.
 
 In an NFS environment, lack of synchronization between machine clocks
 might create difficulties to any tool comparing dates and file time stamps,
-like `tar' in incremental dumps.  This has been a recurrent problem in
-GNU Makefiles for the last few years.  We would like a general solution.
+like `tar' in incremental dumps.  This has been a recurrent problem with
+GNU Make for the last few years.  We would like a general solution.
 
 * BSD compatibility matters.
 
@@ -134,9 +135,9 @@ This file is not a real file, but some kind of uncompressed view of
 the real compressed swap file; there is no reason to back it up, so
 the simplest workaround is to avoid tarring this file.
 
-.------------------.
-| Special topics.  |
-`------------------'
+
+Special topics
+--------------
 
 Here are a few special matters about GNU `tar', not related to build
 matters.  See previous section for such.