lfs-book/chapter06/tar-inst.xml

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Tar</title>

<para>
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 -y option
to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
for gzip files).
</para>
 
<para>
Apply the patch by running the following command:
</para>

<para>
<screen>
<userinput>cd src &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>patch -i ../../gnutarpatch.txt &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>cd ..</userinput>
</screen>
</para>

<para>
Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel
directory:
</para>

<para>
<screen>
<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin \</userinput>
<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--bindir=/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install</userinput>
</screen>
</para>

</sect2>