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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2000-10-29 22:23:21 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2000-10-29 22:23:21 +0000 |
commit | ffcddc2e167cfafb016d96294aad463f6b721353 (patch) | |
tree | 1124bab1662cfac31bf388241811d11eb75addba /README | |
parent | a829f56a6e283f80927ba9cae22ab3439ecc2562 (diff) | |
download | tar-ffcddc2e167cfafb016d96294aad463f6b721353.tar.gz |
Update email address, gzip 1.3 location, and Sparc GCC bugs.
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@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ to the report address; rather take special arrangement with the maintainer. Your feedback will help us to make a better and more portable package. Consider documentation errors as bugs, and report them as such. If you develop anything pertaining to `tar' or have suggestions, let us know -and share your findings by writing at `tar-forum@iro.umontreal.ca'. +and share your findings by writing to <bug-tar@gnu.org>. -.--------------------. -| Installation hints | -`--------------------' + +Installation hints +------------------ Here are a few hints which might help installing `tar' on some systems. @@ -78,16 +78,17 @@ If you see the following symptoms: tar: Child returned status 2 then you have encountered a gzip incompatibility that should be fixed -in gzip 1.3, which is not yet available as of this writing. You can -work around the incompatibility by using a shell command like -`gzip -d <file.tar.gz | tar -xzf -'. +in gzip test version 1.3, which as of this writing is available at +<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>. You can work around the +incompatibility by using a shell command like + `gzip -d <file.tar.gz | tar -xzf -'. * Solaris issues. -If you are compiling with GCC, you may need to upgrade GCC to 2.95.2 -or later before compiling GNU tar, as GNU tar exercises many features -that can cause problems with older GCC versions, mostly having to do -with mutations to Solaris system include files. +GNU tar exercises many features that can cause problems with older GCC +versions. In particular, GCC 2.8.1 (sparc, -O1 or -O2) is known to +miscompile GNU tar. No compiler-related problems have been reported +when using GCC 2.95.2 or later. Recent versions of Solaris tar sport a new -E option to generate extended headers in an undocumented format. GNU tar does not @@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ to a value from the table below, before configuration (see `INSTALL'). Platform Compiler LDFLAGS (any) Gnu C -static - AIX (vendor) "-bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp" + AIX (vendor) -bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp HPUX (vendor) -Wl,-a,archive IRIX (vendor) -non_shared OSF (vendor) -non_shared @@ -114,12 +115,12 @@ to a value from the table below, before configuration (see `INSTALL'). Solaris (vendor) -Bstatic SunOS (vendor) -Bstatic -* Failed `incremen.sh'. +* Failed test `incremen.sh'. In an NFS environment, lack of synchronization between machine clocks might create difficulties to any tool comparing dates and file time stamps, -like `tar' in incremental dumps. This has been a recurrent problem in -GNU Makefiles for the last few years. We would like a general solution. +like `tar' in incremental dumps. This has been a recurrent problem with +GNU Make for the last few years. We would like a general solution. * BSD compatibility matters. @@ -134,9 +135,9 @@ This file is not a real file, but some kind of uncompressed view of the real compressed swap file; there is no reason to back it up, so the simplest workaround is to avoid tarring this file. -.------------------. -| Special topics. | -`------------------' + +Special topics +-------------- Here are a few special matters about GNU `tar', not related to build matters. See previous section for such. |