This is GNU tar. This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. Please send comments and problem reports to . If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following packages (or later) to build GNU tar. We don't make any extra effort to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable version. - Automake - Autoconf - Bison - Gettext - Gzip - M4 - Texinfo - Wget As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available). Valgrind is also highly recommended, if Valgrind supports your architecture. Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It will obtain gnulib and paxutils files from their Git repositories on Savannah. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration process. Simply running bootstrap without arguments should do in most cases. Bootstrap reads its configuration from file bootstrap.conf located on the top of tar source tree. Several options are provided that modify its behavior. Run 'bootstrap --help' for a list. To only fetch auxiliary files from the network, run ./autopull.sh. To only generate files such as 'configure', without accessing the network, run ./autogen.sh. The 'bootstrap' script does both. Copyright 2001-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .