-This is a test release of GNU tar.
+This is GNU tar.
+This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
- Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
+packages (or later) to build GNU tar. We don't make any extra effort
+to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
+that you have the latest stable version.
- This file is part of GNU tar.
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
+- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
- GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
+As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
+suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
- GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various
+additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
+site and prepares the source directory for building.
-This release was built with the following tools. You probably need
-these tools (or later) if you want to hack seriously on it.
+When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
+paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
+using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
+page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
+process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
+Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
-autoconf 2.57
-automake 1.7.5
-bison 1.875
-gettext 0.12.1
+ --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have gnulib sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
+ --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have paxutils sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
+ --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading
+ gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
+ accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
+ repository).
+
+ --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
+ the gnulib repository.
+
+ --no-po Do not download po files.
+
+Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
+will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
+some other value.
+
+\f
+
+Copyright 2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU tar.
+
+GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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