lfs-book/chapter08/tar.xml

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<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 provides the ability to create tar archives, as well
    as various other kinds of manipulation.  Tar can be used on
    previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or
    to update or list files which were already stored. </para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&tar-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&tar-fin-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>