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authorKen Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>2007-06-12 20:51:30 +0000
committerKen Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>2007-06-12 20:51:30 +0000
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parent63ebb95c608acd8b6bf9c6e9744346d2a40e56e8 (diff)
Update to tar-1.17, fixes #2029.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8164 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Tar</title>
+ <para os="a">One of the tests in the testsuite (number 12, exclude) fails,
+ at least on recent linux systems, because the output needs to be sorted
+ before it is diffed. If you are going to run the testsuite, fix this by
+ applying the following patch before you configure: </para>
+
+<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sort-exclude-test-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>