Installation of Tar
If you want to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, use the tar
patch avaiable from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -y option
to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which you can use
for gzip files).
Apply the patch by running the following command:
cd src &&
patch -i ../../gnutarpatch.txt &&
cd ..
Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel
directory:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin
&&
make &&
make install &&
mv /usr/bin/tar /bin