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 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
12 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
13 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
14 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
15 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
16 - Git <http://git.or.cz>
17 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
18 - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
19 - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
21 Up-to-date compilers and libraries are also recommended, for better
22 static checking. You may be able to use an older compiler by building
23 with 'make WERROR_CFLAGS='; if so, don't worry about its false alarms.
25 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
26 Valgrind supports your architecture.
30 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
31 tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
32 which are extracted from other source packages:
34 1. Change to the source tree directory
42 Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
45 Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
46 intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later.
47 There are lots of options that you may find useful in this case.
48 See './bootstrap --help' for a detailed list.
50 Bootstrapping obtains Gnulib and Paxutils files from their Git
51 repositories on Savannah. Then, it fetches translations from the
52 Translation Project, and, finally, it builds files useful for
53 configuration. Simply running ./bootstrap without arguments should do
56 The file bootstrap.conf contains bootstrapping configuration.
57 Several options are provided that modify its behavior.
58 Run './bootstrap --help' for a list.
60 To only fetch auxiliary files from the network, run './bootstrap --pull'.
61 To only generate files such as 'configure', without accessing the
62 network, run './bootstrap --gen'.
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