Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:19:44AM CEST:
> 
> As I've said, I'm also deliberately telling the tar2.test
> failing on system that cannot create pax archive to get some
> feedback from people using CVS Automake.  (I tried Darwin and
> Solaris8, where this test fails.)  I'll correct this before the
> release.

fails on RedHat 9, tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25, pax (pax) 3.0.  I can only
guess the relevant output you are looking for is this part of
config.log, created by

$ cd tests; make check TESTS=tar2.test VERBOSE=x

What other info do you need (CVS Automake, CVS Autoconf)?

configure:1895: checking how to create a pax tar archive
configure:1904: tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
configure:1907: $? = 0
configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval tar --format=posix -chf - "$tardir" 
>conftest.tar
tar: unrecognized option `--format=posix'
Try `tar --help' for more information.
configure:1950: $? = 2
configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval pax -L -x pax -w "$tardir" 
>conftest.tar
pax: Unknown -x format: pax
pax: Known -x formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar

usage: pax [-cdnvz] [-E limit] [-f archive] [-s replstr] ... [-U user] ...
           [-G group] ... [-T [from_date][,to_date]] ... [pattern ...]
       pax -r [-cdiknuvzDYZ] [-E limit] [-f archive] [-o options] ...
           [-p string] ... [-s replstr] ... [-U user] ... [-G group] ...
              [-T [from_date][,to_date]] ...  [pattern ...]
       pax -w [-dituvzHLPX] [-b blocksize] [ [-a] [-f archive] ] [-x format]
           [-B bytes] [-s replstr] ... [-o options] ... [-U user] ...
           [-G group] ... [-T [from_date][,to_date][/[c][m]]] ... [file ...]
       pax -r -w [-diklntuvDHLPXYZ] [-p string] ... [-s replstr] ...
           [-U user] ... [-G group] ... [-T [from_date][,to_date][/[c][m]]] ...
           [file ...] directory
configure:1950: $? = 1
configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval find "$tardir" -print | cpio -H pax 
-L -o >conftest.cpio: invalid archive format `pax'; valid formats are:
crc newc odc bin ustar tar (all-caps also recognized)
configure:1950: $? = 2
configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval false >conftest.tar
configure:1950: $? = 1
configure:1970: result: none