lfs-book/chapter06/tar.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
<title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
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<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>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>12.7 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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</sect2>

<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Tar</title>

<para>Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using 
GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para>Tar has a bug when the <parameter>-S</parameter> option is used
with files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sparse_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content"><title>Contents of Tar</title>

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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>rmt and tar</seg></seglistitem>
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<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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<varlistentry id="rmt">
<term><command>rmt</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt"><primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<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>
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