WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems,
such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty
directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP
- site.
+ site. For modern formats, such as .tar.xz, we suggest bsdtar.exe
+ from the libarchive package; its precompiled Windows binaries are
+ available from this site:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
- In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.BZR in the
- parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of
- "touch.exe" in your path, and that it will create files that do not
- yet exist.
+ In addition to this file, if you build a development snapshot, you
+ should also read INSTALL.BZR in the parent directory.
* Supported development environments