1 These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of
6 You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU
7 tar. We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
8 these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
11 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
12 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
13 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
14 - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
15 - Git <http://git.or.cz>
19 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
20 tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
21 which are extracted from other source packages:
23 1. Change to the source tree directory
31 Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
34 Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
35 intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later.
36 There are lots of options that you may find useful in this case.
37 See 'bootstrap --help' for a detailed list.
40 * Copyright information
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