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These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of
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this package.
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* Requirements
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You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU
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tar. We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
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these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
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version.
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- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
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- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
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- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
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- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
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- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
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- Git <http://git.or.cz>
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- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
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- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
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- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
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Up-to-date compilers and libraries are also recommended, for better
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static checking. You may be able to use an older compiler by building
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with 'make WERROR_CFLAGS='; if so, don't worry about its false alarms.
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Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
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Valgrind supports your architecture.
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* Bootstrapping
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Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
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tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
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which are extracted from other source packages:
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1. Change to the source tree directory
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cd tar
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2. Run
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./bootstrap
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Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
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INSTALLATION).
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Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
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intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later.
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There are lots of options that you may find useful in this case.
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See './bootstrap --help' for a detailed list.
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Bootstrapping obtains Gnulib and Paxutils files from their Git
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repositories on Savannah. Then, it fetches translations from the
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Translation Project, and, finally, it builds files useful for
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configuration. Simply running ./bootstrap without arguments should do
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in most cases.
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The file bootstrap.conf contains bootstrapping configuration.
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Several options are provided that modify its behavior.
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Run './bootstrap --help' for a list.
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To only fetch auxiliary files from the network, run './bootstrap --pull'.
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To only generate files such as 'configure', without accessing the
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network, run './bootstrap --gen'.
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* Testing
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GNU Tar uses Autoconf's Autotest framework for testing; see the tests/
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subdirectory, where the file testsuite.at contains the top level.
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Run './testsuite --help' to see how to run individual tests.
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* Copyright information
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Copyright 2007-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU tar.
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GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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