%general-entities; ]> Tar-&tar-version; Tar <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Tar The following patch adds a man page for tar: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-man_page-patch; The following patch will add support for new compressors like XZ Utils: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-new_compressors-patch; Configure can not properly determine the results of a few tests. Set them manually: cat > config.cache << EOF gl_cv_func_btowc_eof=yes ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes gl_cv_func_mbrtowc_incomplete_state=yes gl_cv_func_mbrtowc_nul_retval=yes gl_cv_func_mbrtowc_null_arg=yes gl_cv_func_mbrtowc_retval=yes gl_cv_func_wcrtomb_retval=yes EOF Prepare Tar for compilation: ./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \ --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \ --cache-file=config.cache Compile the package: make Install the package: make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install Contents of Tar Installed programs rmt and tar Short Descriptions rmt Remotely manipulates a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection rmt tar Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives, also known as tarballs tar