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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

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

<para>A patch may be applied to give tar direct support for
bzip2 files. This patch adds the <emphasis>-j</emphasis> option
to tar, which is similar to the <emphasis>-z</emphasis> option
used for gzip files.</para>

<para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>

<para><screen><userinput>CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" ./configure --prefix=/stage1
make LDFLAGS="-s"
make check
make install</userinput></screen></para>

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