1 These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of
6 You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU
7 tar. We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
8 these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
11 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
12 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
13 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
14 - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
15 - Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>
16 - Git <http://git.or.cz>
20 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
21 tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
22 which are extracted from other source packages:
24 1. Change to the source tree directory
32 Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
35 Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
36 intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later. In
37 this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by
38 avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in GNU tar
39 root directory the file named '.bootstrap' with the following
42 --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib
44 Replace '$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the Gnulib
47 For more information about 'bootstrap', run 'bootstrap --help'.
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58 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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