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These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of
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this package.
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* Requirements
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You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU
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tar. We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
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these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
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version.
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- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
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- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
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- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
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- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
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- Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>
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- Git <http://git.or.cz>
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* Bootstrapping
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Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
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tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
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which are extracted from other source packages:
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1. Change to the source tree directory
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cd tar
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2. Run
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./bootstrap
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Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
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INSTALLATION).
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Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
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intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later. In
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this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by
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avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in GNU tar
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root directory the file named `.bootstrap' with the following
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contents:
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--gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib
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Replace `$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the Gnulib
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sources reside.
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For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'.
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* Copyright information
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Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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of this document, or of portions of it,
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under the above conditions, provided also that they
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carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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