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| author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2010-11-10 22:23:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2010-11-10 22:23:21 +0000 |
| commit | 64af1f62ed0e2885b15def4ecbaafc706bd70b6c (patch) | |
| tree | 603fcef2a69d801f730a4cb66060913128d035bb /chapter06/tar.xml | |
| parent | b4a1c5e185fdd69df7026b5b26f8ead8dfa386b9 (diff) | |
Upgrade to Tar-1.25 and install its HTML documentation. Fixes #2777 and #2786.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9411 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/tar.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/tar.xml | 30 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml index 52176566f..7fed883e5 100644 --- a/chapter06/tar.xml +++ b/chapter06/tar.xml @@ -40,18 +40,23 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Tar</title> - <para>Again, fix a bug that was inserted into the latest code release:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i /SIGPIPE/d src/tar.c</userinput></screen> - - <para>Also, fix a bug that causes a buffer overflow when creating a new - tar file. This fix is needed when building with gcc-4.5 and later.</para> + <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-overflow-patch;</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen> - <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para> + <variablelist> + <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> -<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen> + <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 an only partially built + system, overriding it is OK.</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> @@ -59,13 +64,12 @@ <para>To test the results (about 1 SBU), issue:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="test">sed -i '35 i\ -AT_UNPRIVILEGED_PREREQ' tests/remfiles01.at -make check</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen> <para>Install the package:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="install">make install +make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen> </sect2> |