Installing Tar-1.13

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  7 MB

Installation of Tar

If you want to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, you can use the tar patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j option to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used for gzip files).

Apply the patch by running the following command:

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

Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel directory:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin \
���--bindir=/bin &&
make &&
make install

Contents of tar-1.13

Program Files

rmt and tar

Descriptions

rmt

rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs in manipulating a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection.

tar

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

Dependencies

Tar-1.13 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: ar, as, ld
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, ln, ls, mv, rm
gcc: cc
grep: egrep, grep
make: make
patch: patch
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, expr, sleep, uname
textutils: cat, tr