+* gzip and bzip2.
+
+GNU tar uses the gzip and bzip2 programs to read and write compressed
+archives. If you don't have these programs already, you need to
+install them. Their sources can be found at:
+
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/
+
+If you see the following symptoms:
+
+ $ tar -xzf file.tar.gz
+ gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
+ 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 -'.
+
+* 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.
+
+Recent versions of Solaris tar sport a new -E option to generate
+extended headers in an undocumented format. GNU tar does not
+understand these headers.
+