Re: [Bug-tar] Issue with GNU Tar and HP-UX LVM v2.2 filesystems

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/23/2012 07:12 AM, Michael White wrote:
> I don't have a clue how to go about trying to patch and compile.

If you have the proper build tools installed, and you're
on the Internet,  you can do this.

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/tar.git
cd tar
./bootstrap
./configure
make check

Perhaps your HP-UX host lacks some tools; if so,
the easiest thing might be to find a GNU/Linux host
that has them (I use Fedora and Ubuntu, but any standard
distribution will do) and run this:

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/tar.git
cd tar
./bootstrap
./configure
make dist

This will create a tarball file (currently tar-1.26.90.tar.gz)
that you can then copy to the HP-UX host, untar, and run
"./configure; make check" in the usual way.

The tools you need are listed in the README-hacking file, at:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/README-hacking