Approximate build time: 0.2 SBU Required disk space: 10 MB |
Official download location for Tar (1.13.25):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
For its installation Tar depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Prepare Tar for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools |
Compile the programs:
make |
As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Tar test suite anyway, the following command will do so:
make check |
Then install them and their documentation:
make install |
The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Tar in Chapter 6.