From: François Pinard Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 02:56:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Initial revision X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6bb9ed8625cd6a37d861762f035db642c783ef5;p=chaz%2Ftar Initial revision --- diff --git a/README b/README index 35aa30e..3387258 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!! -This GNU tar 1.11. Please send bug reports, etc., to -bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. +This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to +bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with added features. The manual is currently being written. An old @@ -11,7 +10,55 @@ for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed. This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which must reside in /etc). The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution. -See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix. +To compile tar (and rmt, if your system has the needed features) on +Unix-like systems: + +1. Type `./configure'. This shell script attempts to guess correct +values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation, +and creates the file `Makefile'. This takes a couple of minutes. + +If you want to compile in a different directory from the one +containing the source code, `cd' to that directory and run `configure' +with the option `+srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the directory that +contains the source code. The object files and executables will be +put in the current directory. This option only works with versions of +`make' that support the VPATH variable. `configure' ignores any other +arguments you give it. + +If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking +that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial +values for variables by setting them in the environment; in +Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like +this: +$ CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure + +2. If you want to change the directories where the programs will be +installed, or the optimization options, edit `Makefile' and change +those values. If you have an unusual system that needs special +compilation options that `configure' doesn't know about, and you +didn't pass them in the environment when running `configure', you +should add them to `Makefile' now. Alternately, teach `configure' how +to figure out that it is being run on a system where they are needed, +and mail the diffs to the address listed at the top of this file so we +can include them in the next release. + +3. Type `make'. + +4. If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has +rename in the C library (so WANT_RENAME is not used), -lPW might give +you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests itself as +an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking tar. If this +happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a and `ar rc' to +put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS instead of -lPW. +This problem does not occur when using gcc, which has alloca built in. + +5. If the programs compile successfully, type `make install' to +install them. + +6. After you have installed the programs, you can remove the binaries +from the source directory by typing `make clean'. Type `make +distclean' if you also want to remove `Makefile', for instance if you +are going to recompile tar next on another type of machine. makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS. @@ -19,8 +66,33 @@ Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT. I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves. -If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup -scripts. They are what we use at the FSF -User-visible changes since 1.10: +User-visible changes since 1.09: + +Filename to -G is optional. -C works right. +Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right. + +-g is now +incremental +-G is now +listed-incremental + +Sparse files now work correctly. + ++volume is now called +label. + ++exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what ++exclude used to do. + +Exit status is now correct. + ++totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits. + +When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp. + +New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump: +you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point +instead of waiting for a write error. +New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to +people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't +need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups +at the FSF.