This is GNU tar. This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. Please send comments and problem reports to . 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 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 .