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

<para>
To be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, 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>

<blockquote><literallayout>

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

</literallayout></blockquote>

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

<blockquote><literallayout>

	<userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr 
		--disable-nls \</userinput>
	<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=$LFS/usr/bin &amp;&amp;
		</userinput>
	<userinput>make LDFLAGS=-static &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/tar $LFS/bin</userinput>

</literallayout></blockquote>

</sect2>