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Last change on this file since 3f8be484 was 3f8be484, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r627@server (orig r625): jim | 2005-10-31 12:59:34 -0800
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6  %general-entities;
7  %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
11  <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>
12
13  <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
14
15  <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
16    <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
17  </indexterm>
18
19  <sect2 role="package">
20    <title/>
21
22    <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>
23
24    <segmentedlist>
25      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
26      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
27
28      <seglistitem>
29        <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
30        <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31      </seglistitem>
32    </segmentedlist>
33
34    <segmentedlist>
35      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
36
37      <seglistitem>
38        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc,
39        Grep, Make, and Sed</seg>
40      </seglistitem>
41    </segmentedlist>
42
43  </sect2>
44
45  <sect2 role="installation">
46    <title>Installation of Tar</title>
47
48<para os="a">Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using
49GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
50
51<screen os="a1"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
52
53    <para os="b">Tar has a bug when the <option>-S</option> option is used with
54    files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue:</para>
55
56<screen os="b1"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sparse_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
57
58    <para os="c">Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
59
60<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
61
62    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
63
64<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
65
66    <para os="f">To test the results, issue:
67    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
68
69    <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
70
71<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
72
73  </sect2>
74
75  <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
76    <title>Contents of Tar</title>
77
78    <segmentedlist>
79      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
80
81      <seglistitem>
82        <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
83      </seglistitem>
84    </segmentedlist>
85
86    <variablelist>
87      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
88      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
89      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
90
91      <varlistentry id="rmt">
92        <term><command>rmt</command></term>
93        <listitem>
94          <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
95          tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
96          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
97            <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
98          </indexterm>
99        </listitem>
100      </varlistentry>
101
102      <varlistentry id="tar">
103        <term><command>tar</command></term>
104        <listitem>
105          <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of
106          archives, also known as tarballs</para>
107          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
108            <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
109          </indexterm>
110        </listitem>
111      </varlistentry>
112
113    </variablelist>
114
115  </sect2>
116
117</sect1>
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