This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using star "test archives". The archives themselves can be obtained from http://download.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts. The tests are ignored unless environment variable STAR_TESTSCRIPTS is set and points to the directory where the test archives reside. Sample usage: make STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir check or make TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir' check The file `quicktest.sh' is a separate test. It is never executed within `make check' command, you will need to run it manually. Please, carefully read section `quicktest.sh' below before running it. Following is a short description of the tests: * gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively. These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted by previous versions of GNU tar. * multi-fail.at Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar. These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option). * ustar-big-2g.at Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand. * ustar-big-8g.at Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990) format. * pax-big-10g.at Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB). * quicktest.sh This is a test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It requires two files: ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist, (they usually reside in star/tartest directory), and `tartest' program (also part of star distribution). The test must be run only with root privileges, so it is a good idea to test contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running it. If `tartest' is not in your PATH, use TARTEST variable to specify its full file name. You may pass both STAR_TESTSCRIPTS and TARTEST variables as command line arguments to quicktest.sh, as shown in the example below: ./quicktest.sh STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir TARTEST=/path/to/tartest Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: