Installing Tar-1.13.25

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  10 MB

Contents of Tar

(Last checked against version 1.13.25.)

Tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tar file.

Installed programs: rmt and tar

Tar Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.13.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, install, ls, mv, rm,
             sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Net-tools: hostname
Patch: patch
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo

Installation of Tar

Prepare Tar to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the programs:

make 

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

Then install them and their documentation:

make install