X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README-alpha;h=4483f50e02df07a8778634cc065830555baed50e;hp=4dd91bf285288080faf9330cf28468a7665a801d;hb=4eb1484dced64b74cafda40918c0d96e5084846a;hpb=b9be191da0fc3a0b7c18deaab07d8642391159eb diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha index 4dd91bf..4483f50 100644 --- a/README-alpha +++ b/README-alpha @@ -1,30 +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 . - 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 +- Autoconf +- Bison +- Gettext +- Gzip +- M4 +- Texinfo +- 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 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. + + + +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 .