<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> <sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap"> <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?> <sect1info condition="script"> <productname>tar</productname> <productnumber>&tar-version;</productnumber> <address>&tar-url;</address> </sect1info> <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title> <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar"> <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary> </indexterm> <sect2 role="package"> <title/> <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&tar-ch6-sbu;</seg> <seg>&tar-ch6-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Tar</title> <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen> <variablelist> <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> <varlistentry> <term><envar>FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1</envar></term> <listitem> <para>This forces the test for <function>mknod</function> to be run as root. It is generally considered dangerous to run this test as the root user, but as it is being run on a system that has only been partially built, overriding it is OK.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen> <para>To test the results (about 3 SBU), issue:</para> <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen> <!-- Seems to pass for version 1.31. Keeping as a comment just in case... <para>One test, link mismatch, is known to fail.</para> --> <para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput remap="install">make install make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen> </sect2> <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content"> <title>Contents of Tar</title> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>tar</seg> <seg>/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> <variablelist> <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> <varlistentry id="tar"> <term><command>tar</command></term> <listitem> <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives, also known as tarballs</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar"> <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary> </indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect2> </sect1>