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

   1 These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of
   2 this package.
   3
   4 * Requirements
   5
   6 You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU
   7 tar.  We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
   8 these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
   9 version.
  10
  11 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
  12 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
  13 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
  14 - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
  15 - Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>
  16 - Git <http://git.or.cz>
  17
  18 * Bootstrapping
  19
  20 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
  21 tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
  22 which are extracted from other source packages:
  23
  24 1. Change to the source tree directory
  25
  26    cd tar
  27
  28 2. Run
  29
  30    ./bootstrap
  31
  32 Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
  33 INSTALLATION).
  34
  35 Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
  36 intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later. In
  37 this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by
  38 avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in GNU tar
  39 root directory the file named '.bootstrap' with the following
  40 contents:
  41
  42    --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib
  43
  44 Replace '$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the Gnulib
  45 sources reside.
  46
  47 For more information about 'bootstrap', run 'bootstrap --help'.
  48
  49 \f
  50 * Copyright information
  51
  52 Copyright 2007-2009, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  53
  54 This file is part of GNU tar.
  55
  56 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  57 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  58 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
  59 (at your option) any later version.
  60
  61 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  62 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  63 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  64 GNU General Public License for more details.
  65
  66 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  67 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  68
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