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-rw-r--r--chapter05/tar.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter06/tar.xml3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/tar.xml b/chapter05/tar.xml
index 8b5f490fa..15c522c0d 100644
--- a/chapter05/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter05/tar.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Tar</title>
-<para>Apply a patch to Tar to enable it to compile with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+<para>If you wish to run the test suite, apply the following patch to fix
+some issues with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml
index 78f4cfe8e..938bd50ff 100644
--- a/chapter06/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter06/tar.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Tar</title>
-<para>Apply a patch to Tar to enable it to compile with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+<para>Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using
+GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>