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. If we discover that
-newer versions are needed to bootstrap, we'll update the version
-numbers in this list.
+to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
+that you have the latest stable version.
-autoconf 2.59
-automake 1.8
-bison 1.875
-gettext 0.12.1
-m4 1.4
-wget 1.7
+- 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/>
-For GNU m4 1.4, we recommend also installing the `translit' patch; see
-Debian bug 211477 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211477>.
-This patch is bundled into Debian m4 1.4-17 or later.
+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).
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
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.
-When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib files
-from CVS repository 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:
-
+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:
--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
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-Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2013 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 2, or (at your option)
-any later version.
+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
GNU General Public License for more details.
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.
-
+along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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