If you are running tar:

tar -cvzf readerd.tar.gz /home/goliatone/projects/reader/readerd

And it fails with an error similar to the following:

readerd.tar.gz
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/home/goliatone/projects/reader/readerd

Try adding the --absolute-names option:

tar -cvzf readerd.tar.gz --absolute-names /home/goliatone/projects/reader/readerd