X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README-alpha;h=4483f50e02df07a8778634cc065830555baed50e;hp=2eb08fe6c78e272614d9566d16fc2ea9775c2897;hb=576e99a21c566598d7a701142e439cb283cac24f;hpb=698e5f95bf0fea224ba82f8113d5cbbd20fad49f diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha index 2eb08fe..4483f50 100644 --- a/README-alpha +++ b/README-alpha @@ -1,112 +1,81 @@ -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 . -This release was built with GNU automake 1.5 patched as follows: - -2001-09-14 Paul Eggert - - * lib/am/distdir.am (REMOVE_DISTDIR): - New macro. Do not change permission of non-directories. - (distdir, dist, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-shar, dist-zip, dist-all, - distcheck): Use it. - -=================================================================== -RCS file: lib/am/distdir.am,v -retrieving revision 1.5 -retrieving revision 1.5.0.1 -diff -pu -r1.5 -r1.5.0.1 ---- lib/am/distdir.am 2001/07/14 20:12:52 1.5 -+++ lib/am/distdir.am 2001/09/15 05:12:18 1.5.0.1 -@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ else !%?TOPDIR_P% - ?DISTDIR?distdir = $(top_distdir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) - endif !%?TOPDIR_P% - -+REMOVE_DISTDIR = \ -+ { test ! -d $(distdir) \ -+ || { find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' \ -+ && rm -fr $(distdir); }; } -+ - distdir: $(DISTFILES) - ## - ## For Gnits users, this is pretty handy. Look at 15 lines -@@ -47,7 +52,7 @@ endif %?TOPDIR_P% - ## Only for the top dir. - ## - if %?TOPDIR_P% -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - mkdir $(distdir) - endif %?TOPDIR_P% - ## -@@ -168,13 +173,13 @@ GZIP_ENV = --best - .PHONY: dist - dist: distdir - $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).tar.gz -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - - if %?BZIP2% - .PHONY: dist-bzip2 - dist-bzip2: distdir - $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | bzip2 -9 -c >$(distdir).tar.bz2 -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - endif %?BZIP2% - - -@@ -182,7 +187,7 @@ if %?COMPRESS% - .PHONY: dist-tarZ - dist-tarZ: distdir - $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | compress -c >$(distdir).tar.Z -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - endif %?COMPRESS% - - -@@ -190,7 +195,7 @@ if %?SHAR% - .PHONY: dist-shar - dist-shar: distdir - shar $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).shar.gz -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - endif %?SHAR% - - -@@ -199,7 +204,7 @@ if %?ZIP% - dist-zip: distdir - -rm -f $(distdir).zip - zip -rq $(distdir).zip $(distdir) -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - endif %?ZIP% - - endif %?TOPDIR_P% -@@ -223,7 +228,7 @@ dist-all: distdir - ?SHAR? shar $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).shar.gz - ?ZIP? -rm -f $(distdir).zip - ?ZIP? zip -rq $(distdir).zip $(distdir) -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - - endif %?TOPDIR_P% - -@@ -239,8 +244,7 @@ if %?TOPDIR_P% - # tarfile. - .PHONY: distcheck - distcheck: dist --## Make sure we can remove distdir before trying to remove it. -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) > /dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gunzip -c $(distdir).tar.gz | $(AMTAR) xf - - ## Make the new source tree read-only. Distributions ought to work in - ## this case. However, make the top-level directory writable so we -@@ -273,7 +277,7 @@ distcheck: dist - && (test `find . -type f -print | wc -l` -eq 0 \ - || (echo "Error: files left after distclean" 1>&2; \ - exit 1) ) -- -chmod -R a+w $(distdir) > /dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir) -+ $(REMOVE_DISTDIR) - @echo "$(distdir).tar.gz is ready for distribution" | \ - sed 'h;s/./=/g;p;x;p;x' - endif %?TOPDIR_P% +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. + +- Automake +- Autoconf +- Bison +- Gettext +- Gzip +- M4 +- Texinfo +- Wget + +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 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 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 +will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to +some other value. + + + +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 .