-This is a test release of GNU tar.
+This is GNU tar.
+This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
-This release was built with GNU automake 1.5 patched as follows:
-
-2001-09-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * lib/am/distdir.am (REMOVE_DISTDIR):
- New macro. Do not change permission of non-directories.
- (distdir, dist, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-shar, dist-zip, dist-all,
- distcheck): Use it.
-
-===================================================================
-RCS file: lib/am/distdir.am,v
-retrieving revision 1.5
-retrieving revision 1.5.0.1
-diff -pu -r1.5 -r1.5.0.1
---- lib/am/distdir.am 2001/07/14 20:12:52 1.5
-+++ lib/am/distdir.am 2001/09/15 05:12:18 1.5.0.1
-@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ else !%?TOPDIR_P%
- ?DISTDIR?distdir = $(top_distdir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)
- endif !%?TOPDIR_P%
-
-+REMOVE_DISTDIR = \
-+ { test ! -d $(distdir) \
-+ || { find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' \
-+ && rm -fr $(distdir); }; }
-+
- distdir: $(DISTFILES)
- ##
- ## For Gnits users, this is pretty handy. Look at 15 lines
-@@ -47,7 +52,7 @@ endif %?TOPDIR_P%
- ## Only for the top dir.
- ##
- if %?TOPDIR_P%
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- mkdir $(distdir)
- endif %?TOPDIR_P%
- ##
-@@ -168,13 +173,13 @@ GZIP_ENV = --best
- .PHONY: dist
- dist: distdir
- $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).tar.gz
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
-
- if %?BZIP2%
- .PHONY: dist-bzip2
- dist-bzip2: distdir
- $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | bzip2 -9 -c >$(distdir).tar.bz2
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- endif %?BZIP2%
-
-
-@@ -182,7 +187,7 @@ if %?COMPRESS%
- .PHONY: dist-tarZ
- dist-tarZ: distdir
- $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | compress -c >$(distdir).tar.Z
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- endif %?COMPRESS%
-
-
-@@ -190,7 +195,7 @@ if %?SHAR%
- .PHONY: dist-shar
- dist-shar: distdir
- shar $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).shar.gz
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- endif %?SHAR%
-
-
-@@ -199,7 +204,7 @@ if %?ZIP%
- dist-zip: distdir
- -rm -f $(distdir).zip
- zip -rq $(distdir).zip $(distdir)
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- endif %?ZIP%
-
- endif %?TOPDIR_P%
-@@ -223,7 +228,7 @@ dist-all: distdir
- ?SHAR? shar $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).shar.gz
- ?ZIP? -rm -f $(distdir).zip
- ?ZIP? zip -rq $(distdir).zip $(distdir)
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
-
- endif %?TOPDIR_P%
-
-@@ -239,8 +244,7 @@ if %?TOPDIR_P%
- # tarfile.
- .PHONY: distcheck
- distcheck: dist
--## Make sure we can remove distdir before trying to remove it.
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) > /dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gunzip -c $(distdir).tar.gz | $(AMTAR) xf -
- ## Make the new source tree read-only. Distributions ought to work in
- ## this case. However, make the top-level directory writable so we
-@@ -273,7 +277,7 @@ distcheck: dist
- && (test `find . -type f -print | wc -l` -eq 0 \
- || (echo "Error: files left after distclean" 1>&2; \
- exit 1) )
-- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) > /dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
-+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR)
- @echo "$(distdir).tar.gz is ready for distribution" | \
- sed 'h;s/./=/g;p;x;p;x'
- endif %?TOPDIR_P%
+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 <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/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 <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
+
+Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various
+additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
+site and prepares the source directory for building.
+
+When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
+paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
+using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
+page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
+process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
+Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
+
+ --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have gnulib sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
+ --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have paxutils sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
+ --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading
+ gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
+ accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
+ repository).
+
+ --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
+ the gnulib repository.
+
+ --no-po Do not download po files.
+
+Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
+will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
+some other value.
+
+\f
+
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 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 2, 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 tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.