Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - README-alpha

   1 This is GNU tar.
   2
   3 This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
   4 Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
   5
   6 If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
   7 packages (or later) to build GNU tar.  We don't make any extra effort
   8 to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
   9 that you have the latest stable version.
  10
  11 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
  12 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
  13 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
  14 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
  15 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
  16 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
  17 - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
  18
  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
  23 When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
  24 paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
  25 using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
  26 page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
  27 process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
  28 Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
  29
  30  --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME      Specify the local directory where gnulib
  31                               sources reside. Use this if you already
  32                               have gnulib sources on your machine, and
  33                               do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  34                               them again.
  35
  36  --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME    Specify the local directory where paxutils
  37                               sources reside. Use this if you already
  38                               have paxutils sources on your machine, and
  39                               do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  40                               them again.
  41
  42  --cvs-auth=METHOD            Set the CVS access method used for downloading
  43                               gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
  44                               accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
  45                               repository).
  46
  47  --cvs-user=USERNAME          Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
  48                               the gnulib repository.
  49
  50  --no-po                      Do not download po files.
  51
  52 Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
  53 will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
  54 some other value.
  55
  56 \f
  57
  58 Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  59
  60 This file is part of GNU tar.
  61
  62 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  63 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  64 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  65 any later version.
  66
  67 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  68 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  69 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  70 GNU General Public License for more details.
  71
  72 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  73 along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  74 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  75 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.