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 2.59
  13 automake 1.8
  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.
  26
  27 When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
  28 paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
  29 using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
  30 page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
  31 process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
  32 Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
  33
  34  --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME      Specify the local directory where gnulib
  35                               sources reside. Use this if you already
  36                               have gnulib sources on your machine, and
  37                               do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  38                               them again.
  39
  40  --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME    Specify the local directory where paxutils
  41                               sources reside. Use this if you already
  42                               have paxutils sources on your machine, and
  43                               do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  44                               them again.
  45
  46  --cvs-auth=METHOD            Set the CVS access method used for downloading
  47                               gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
  48                               accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
  49                               repository).
  50
  51  --cvs-user=USERNAME          Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
  52                               the gnulib repository.
  53
  54  --no-po                      Do not download po files.
  55
  56 Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
  57 will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
  58 some other value.
  59
  60 \f
  61
  62 Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  63
  64 This file is part of GNU tar.
  65
  66 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  67 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  68 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  69 any later version.
  70
  71 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  72 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  73 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  74 GNU General Public License for more details.
  75
  76 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  77 along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  78 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  79 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  80