Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - README-alpha

   1 This is GNU tar.
   2
   3 This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
   4 Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
   5
   6 If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
   7 packages (or later) to build GNU tar.  We don't make any extra effort
   8 to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
   9 that you have the latest stable version.
  10
  11 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
  12 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
  13 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
  14 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
  15 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
  16 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
  17 - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
  18
  19 As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
  20 suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
  21
  22 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
  23 Valgrind supports your architecture.
  24
  25 Before building the package, run "bootstrap".  It obtains various
  26 additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
  27 site and prepares the source directory for building.
  28
  29 When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
  30 paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
  31 using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
  32 page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
  33 process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
  34 Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
  35
  36  --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME      Specify the local directory where gnulib
  37                               sources reside. Use this if you already
  38                               have gnulib sources on your machine, and
  39                               do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  40                               them again.
  41
  42  --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME    Specify the local directory where paxutils
  43                               sources reside. Use this if you already
  44                               have paxutils sources on your machine, and
  45                               do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
  46                               them again.
  47
  48  --cvs-auth=METHOD            Set the CVS access method used for downloading
  49                               gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
  50                               accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
  51                               repository).
  52
  53  --cvs-user=USERNAME          Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
  54                               the gnulib repository.
  55
  56  --no-po                      Do not download po files.
  57
  58 Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
  59 will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
  60 some other value.
  61
  62 \f
  63
  64 Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  65
  66 This file is part of GNU tar.
  67
  68 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  69 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  70 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  71 any later version.
  72
  73 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  74 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  75 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  76 GNU General Public License for more details.
  77
  78 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  79 along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  80 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  81 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.