Installing Tar-1.13

Estimated build time:           0.25 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  10 MB

Contents of Tar

Last checked against version 1.13.

Tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tar file.

Tar installs the following:

Program Files

rmt and tar

Tar Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 1.13.

Autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
Automake: aclocal, automake
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mv, rm
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Net-tools: hostname
Patch: patch
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, sleep, uname
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of Tar

A patch may be applied to give tar direct support for bzip2 files. This patch adds the -j option to tar, which is similar to the -z option used for gzip files.

Apply the patch by running the following command:

patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.13.patch

Prepare Tar to be compiled:

LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Finish installing the package:

make install