this library; unfortunately, this package was only making a static
archive. This is bound to break on a fair number of platforms. Employ
libtool, as this is what vlc (and possibly other packages) are using
in the first place.
PKGREVISION++
Libtar is a library for manipulating tar files from within C programs.
Key features:
- Handles both POSIX 1003.1-1990 tar file format and the GNU extensions.
- API provides functions for easy use, such as tar_extract_all().
- Also provides functions for more granular use, such as
tar_append_regfile().
- Support compressed tar file by way of zlib.