diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index a84565a8c..26092ca4e 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
         <exclude name="${dist.name}/lib/optional.jar"/>
       </tarfileset> 
     </tar>
-    <gzip tofile="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-bin.tar.gz" 
+    <gzip zipfile="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-bin.tar.gz" 
           src="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-bin.tar"/>
     <delete file="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-bin.tar"/>
     <copy file="${dist.name}/lib/optional.jar" tofile="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-optional.jar"/>
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@
         <exclude name="${dist.name}/build.sh"/>
       </tarfileset>
     </tar> 
-    <gzip tofile="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-src.tar.gz" 
+    <gzip zipfile="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-src.tar.gz" 
           src="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-src.tar"/>
     <delete file="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-src.tar"/>
     <delete dir="${dist.name}" />
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GZip.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GZip.java
index 935b93ef9..6956c315f 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GZip.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GZip.java
@@ -72,13 +72,8 @@ public class GZip extends Task {
     private File zipFile;
     private File source;
     
-    public void setTofile(File file) {
-        zipFile = file;
-    }
-
     public void setZipfile(File zipFile) {
-        log("DEPRECATED - The zipfile attribute is deprecated. Use tofile attribute instead.");
-        setTofile( zipFile );
+        this.zipFile = zipFile;
     }
 
     public void setSrc(File src) {