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authorTim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com>2008-04-29 18:30:48 -0400
committerTim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com>2008-04-29 18:30:48 -0400
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Fill in the libarchive-portable build infrastructure that uses autoconf/automake.
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+On most Unix-like systems, you should be able to install libarchive
+and bsdtar using the following common steps:
+ ./configure
+ make
+ make install
+
+If you need to customize the target directories or otherwise adjust
+the build setting, use
+ ./configure --help
+to list the configure options.
+
+To build and install only libarchive:
+ ./configure
+ make
+ cd libarchive && make install
+
+To build and install only bsdtar (assumes a suitable
+libarchive is already installed on the system):
+ ./configure
+ cd tar && make && make install