diff --git a/doc/src/Makefile b/doc/src/Makefile
index 5cbe442efd..c242fafba3 100644
--- a/doc/src/Makefile
+++ b/doc/src/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Postgres documentation makefile
-# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/Makefile,v 1.23 2001/09/30 16:01:12 petere Exp $
+# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/Makefile,v 1.24 2001/09/30 19:09:57 momjian Exp $
 
 subdir = doc/src
 top_builddir = ../..
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ $(addsuffix .tar, $(BOOKS)):
 	$(MAKE) -C sgml clean
 	$(MAKE) -C sgml $(basename $@).html
 	$(MAKE) -C sgml $(basename $@).html JADEFLAGS='-V html-manifest'
-	cd sgml && $(TAR) -c -f ../$@ -T HTML.manifest `echo *.gif | grep -v '\*'` *.css
+	cd sgml && $(TAR) -cf ../$@ -T HTML.manifest `echo *.gif | grep -v '\*'` *.css
 
 man.tar:
 	$(MAKE) -C sgml man
-	$(TAR) -c -f $@ -C sgml man1 man$(sqlmansect_dummy)
+	$(TAR) -cf $@ -C sgml man1 man$(sqlmansect_dummy)