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Eventually, this page will become a proper subproject homepage, like jupp’s and mksh’s. For now, it’s a download and checksum indicator.

Download

The current version is paxmirabilis-20190224.

Download MirCPIO distfiles

• http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/cpio/paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz
• http://pub.allbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/cpio/paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz

Checksums and Hashes

• SHA256 (paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz) = 381713ea1e6e25be83700312b3c0ce2e889edbc39ee09e3a59b9a31b800e0085
• RMD160 (paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz) = 4151fd280f74f14a98a2209545fcc5c748b48e5f
• TIGER (paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz) = 1fd5177c3e5206c60d05e90bd3a83131d4d340ed9c9522ab
• 3726354525 170266 /MirOS/dist/mir/cpio/paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz
• MD5 (paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz) = 4946afec1c273d970c6e5b65103644cf
• All official distfiles are gzsig(1)d. with our current signature key.

Download preformatted documentation

• http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/cats/mir/cpio/
• http://pub.allbsd.org/MirOS/cats/mir/cpio/

Unofficial git mirror

github (chosen only for popularity) hosts a read-only, push-only, possibly nōn-fastforward, unofficial git mirror of the paxmirabilis source tree. Use at your own risk.

Installation

Decompression

For compatibility reasons, gzip(1)-compressed cpio(1) is used as the format to distribute MirCPIO. You can usually decompress it with one of the following commands:

• gzip -dc paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz | cpio -mid
• gzip -dc paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz | pax -r
• tar -xzf paxmirabilis-20190224.cpio.gz

You can also retrieve a POSIX ustar-format distfile pax_20190224.orig.tar.xz from Debian. This can be extracted with: xz -dc pax_20190224.orig.tar.xz | tar -xf -

Compilation

We’ve just switched to an autoconf-like buildsystem similar to what mksh has. Just change into the pax/ subdirectory from the archive, export CC, CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS as needed, and run sh Build.sh, optionally with arguments. Then follow the printed instructions to install the binaries and manpages.
Example: env CFLAGS=-O2 CPPFLAGS=-DPAX_SAFE_PATH=\"/bin\" sh Build.sh -r
Arguments are:

• -r to not build preformatted manpages (most people will wish to use this, it’s the default to build them for BSD historic reasons)
• -tmir to install the binaries and manpages as mirpax, mircpio, mirtar (e.g. used in MirPorts), or…
• -tpax to install them (e.g. in Debian) under the names pax, paxcpio, paxtar (instead of the default pax(1), cpio(1), tar(1) — to keep a system tar or cpio intact)

Caveats

The new codebase has not been sufficiently ported or tested yet. Patches and fixes welcome.