-GNU `tar' 1.12.lfs.1 is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large
-File Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer
+This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large
+file environments like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer
system types longer than `long'. Ordinary GNU `tar' 1.12 cannot handle
files larger than 2 GB when compiled in such environments. This port
-addresses that problem. Please send bug reports specific to this
-unofficial version of GNU `tar' to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
+addresses that problem, and fixes some other well-known bugs in GNU tar 1.12.
+Please send bug reports specific to this unofficial version of GNU `tar'
+to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
+
+This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's
+just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for
+Large File Summit hosts like Solaris 2.6. The patches of this
+release have all been submitted via the usual channels and
+they should no longer be needed once the next official release
+of GNU tar is out.
+
Please glance through *all* sections of this
`README' file before starting configuration. Also make sure you read files
Besides those configure options documented in files `INSTALL' and
`ABOUT-NLS', a few extra options may be accepted after `./configure':
-* `--with-included-malloc' or `--without-included-malloc' may override
-the automatic choice made by `configure' about using included GNU malloc.
-
* `--with-dmalloc' is a debugging option for looking at memory management
problems, it prerequires Gray Watson's package, which is available as
`ftp://ftp.letters.com/src/dmalloc/dmalloc.tar.gz'.
For comprehensive modifications to GNU tar, you might need tools beyond
those used in simple installations. Fully install GNU m4 1.4 first,
-and only then, Autoconf 2.12 with officious patches held in `AC-PATCHES'.
-Install Perl, then Automake 1.1n with officious patches in `AM-PATCHES'.
-You might need Bison 1.25 with officious patches in `BI-PATCHES' (but yacc
-and byacc may be OK for you), and GNU tar itself. All are available on
-GNU archive sites, like in ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/, but Automake
-is still ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey/automake-1.1n.tar.gz.
+and only then, Autoconf 2.13 or later. Install Perl, then Automake
+1.4 or later. You might need Bison 1.26 or later, and GNU tar itself.
+All are available on GNU archive sites, like in
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/.
Send bug reports to `tar-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu'. (Beware, old-timers: it is
`@gnu', not `@prep'; and not `bug-gnu-utils' anymore.) A bug report is
projects / chaz / tar / blobdiff