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a0c65636 | 1 | This is GNU tar. |
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a0c65636 | 3 | This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. |
c05634ea | 4 | Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>. |
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6 | If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following |
7 | packages (or later) to build GNU tar. We don't make any extra effort | |
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8 | to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure |
9 | that you have the latest stable version. | |
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11 | - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> |
12 | - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> | |
13 | - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/> | |
14 | - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/> | |
15 | - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> | |
16 | - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> | |
6398dbe1 | 17 | - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo> |
6bb5c17a | 18 | - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/> |
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20 | As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we |
21 | suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available). | |
22 | ||
23 | Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if | |
24 | Valgrind supports your architecture. | |
25 | ||
6de64217 | 26 | Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various |
a0c65636 | 27 | additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project |
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28 | site and prepares the source directory for building. |
29 | ||
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30 | When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and |
31 | paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah | |
32 | using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar | |
33 | page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration | |
34 | process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases. | |
35 | Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap: | |
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36 | |
37 | --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib | |
38 | sources reside. Use this if you already | |
39 | have gnulib sources on your machine, and | |
40 | do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading | |
41 | them again. | |
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42 | |
43 | --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils | |
44 | sources reside. Use this if you already | |
45 | have paxutils sources on your machine, and | |
46 | do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading | |
47 | them again. | |
48 | ||
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49 | --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading |
50 | gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords | |
51 | accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs | |
52 | repository). | |
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54 | --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing |
55 | the gnulib repository. | |
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57 | --no-po Do not download po files. |
58 | ||
59 | Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap | |
60 | will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to | |
61 | some other value. | |
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63 | \f | |
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a0fb51e1 | 65 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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67 | This file is part of GNU tar. | |
68 | ||
69 | GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
70 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
a0fb51e1 | 71 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) |
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72 | any later version. |
73 | ||
74 | GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
75 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
76 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
77 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
78 | ||
79 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
80 | along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to | |
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81 | the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, |
82 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |