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.  If we discover that
   9 newer versions are needed to bootstrap, we'll update the version
  10 numbers in this list.
  11
  12 autoconf 2.57
  13 automake 1.7.5
  14 bison 1.875
  15 gettext 0.12.1
  16 m4 1.4
  17 wget 1.7
  18
  19 For GNU m4 1.4, we recommend also installing the `translit' patch; see
  20 Debian bug 211477 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211477>.
  21 This patch is bundled into Debian m4 1.4-17 or later.
  22
  23 Before building the package, run "bootstrap".  It obtains various
  24 additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
  25 site and prepares the source directory for building.  The exact way
  26 of invoking bootstrap depends on whether you have the sources for gnulib
  27 installed somewhere on your system and on the method you use to access
  28 the CVS at savannah.
  29
  30 If you already have gnulib sources on your machine, run:
  31
  32         ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME
  33
  34 Otherwise, if you have developer's access to savannah:
  35
  36 a) if you access CVS via ssh, set the environment variable CVS_RSH
  37 to ssh and run ./bootstrap without arguments.
  38
  39 b) if you access CVS via Kerberos, run
  40
  41         ./bootstrap --cvs-auth=gserver
  42
  43 Otherwise, if you are not a member of Savannah, run
  44
  45         ./bootstrap --cvs-auth=pserver
  46
  47 When prompted for a password for anoncvs, simply press the Enter key.
  48
  49 \f
  50
  51 Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  52
  53 This file is part of GNU tar.
  54
  55 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  56 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  57 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  58 any later version.
  59
  60 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  61 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  62 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  63 GNU General Public License for more details.
  64
  65 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  66 along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  67 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  68 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  69