Which tar version? Makefiles?

[Gregory Bourassa]

Hi folks,

Is there something funny about the current source release tar files?   I cannot 
expand 
them easily on OS/2 using gzip and/or tar.   Could there be a version problem?

So, I downloaded the Linux RPM sources and they unpack OK using rpm manager for 
OS/2.

However, the makefiles now seem to be entirely oriented to the RPM approach, 
with 
which I am not very familiar.

Can anyone offer some guidance on getting the sources to compile?   The OS/2 
environment is very Unix-like from the GNU compilation point of view -- but the 
non-RPM makefiles seem to be missing.

Gregory Bourassa