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  1. This is GNU tar.
  2. This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
  3. Please send comments and problem reports to <[email protected]>.
  4. If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
  5. packages (or later) to build GNU tar. We don't make any extra effort
  6. to accommodate older versions of these packages. If we discover that
  7. newer versions are needed to bootstrap, we'll update the version
  8. numbers in this list.
  9. autoconf 2.59
  10. automake 1.8
  11. bison 1.875
  12. gettext 0.12.1
  13. m4 1.4
  14. wget 1.7
  15. For GNU m4 1.4, we recommend also installing the `translit' patch; see
  16. Debian bug 211477 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211477>.
  17. This patch is bundled into Debian m4 1.4-17 or later.
  18. Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various
  19. additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
  20. site and prepares the source directory for building.
  21. When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
  22. paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
  23. using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
  24. page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
  25. process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
  26. Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
  27. --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib
  28. sources reside. Use this if you already
  29. have gnulib sources on your machine, and
  30. do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  31. them again.
  32. --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils
  33. sources reside. Use this if you already
  34. have paxutils sources on your machine, and
  35. do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  36. them again.
  37. --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading
  38. gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
  39. accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
  40. repository).
  41. --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
  42. the gnulib repository.
  43. --no-po Do not download po files.
  44. Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
  45. will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
  46. some other value.
  47. Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  48. This file is part of GNU tar.
  49. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  50. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  51. the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  52. any later version.
  53. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  54. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  55. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  56. GNU General Public License for more details.
  57. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  58. along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
  59. the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  60. Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.