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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, so please make sure
  7. that you have the latest stable version.
  8. - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
  9. - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
  10. - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
  11. - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
  12. - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
  13. - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
  14. - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
  15. As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
  16. suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
  17. Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
  18. Valgrind supports your architecture.
  19. Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various
  20. additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
  21. site and prepares the source directory for building.
  22. When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
  23. paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
  24. using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
  25. page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
  26. process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
  27. Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
  28. --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib
  29. sources reside. Use this if you already
  30. have gnulib sources on your machine, and
  31. do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  32. them again.
  33. --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils
  34. sources reside. Use this if you already
  35. have paxutils sources on your machine, and
  36. do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  37. them again.
  38. --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading
  39. gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
  40. accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
  41. repository).
  42. --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
  43. the gnulib repository.
  44. --no-po Do not download po files.
  45. Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
  46. will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
  47. some other value.
  48. Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  49. This file is part of GNU tar.
  50. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  51. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  52. the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  53. any later version.
  54. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  55. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  56. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  57. GNU General Public License for more details.
  58. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  59. along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
  60. the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  61. Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.