Re: -current tar(1) breakage

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost> wrote:
>building editors/xemacs-nox11 on a -current machine (net-booted, if it 
>matters) fails with

[snip]

>The workaround was to symlink /usr/pkg/bin/gtar to .tools/bin/tar. Is 
>there any pkgsrc magic for making gtar pose as tar(1), or am I on my 
>own?

You can put a line in the pkgsrc Makefile of:

EXTRACT_USING=  gtar

or:

EXTRACT_USING=  bsdtar

I think the 'bsdtar' option will build it from pkgsrc not use tar(1)
from the base OS.