diff --git a/README b/README
index b76e46bd9..303f377c8 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ Automake 1.4 --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
 	`guile.m4' from the top directory of the Guile core disty to
 	`/usr/local/share/aclocal.
 
-libtool 1.2 --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
+libtool 1.2f --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
 	on various systems to produce shared libraries.  Available in
-	"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
+	"ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu".
 
 You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
 different.