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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-07 20:16:00 +0000
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<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 contains an archiving program.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&tar-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&tar-ch6-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>