This is the GNU cpio package. This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. If you have dowloaded its sources from CVS, you will need to have the following software to build it: Package Version (>=) --------- ------------ autoconf 2.54 automake 1.8 libtool 1.4.3 gettext 0.13 Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project site and prepares the source directory for building. When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases. Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap: --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib sources reside. Use this if you already have gnulib sources on your machine, and do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading them again. --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils sources reside. Use this if you already have paxutils sources on your machine, and do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading them again. --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs repository). --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing the gnulib repository. --no-po Do not download po files. Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to some other value. Then, configure and build the package as usual. Report bugs to Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU cpio. GNU cpio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU cpio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU cpio; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.