Re: -current tar(1) breakage

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

Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:38:08 +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
>>> 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
>
>I've seen (and used) EXTRACT_USING. But does this just cover extracts 
>by the pkgsrc framework, or also any invocations of tar by the 
>package's build system?

Don't know.

The package builds fine for me on -current, what is unusual about your
build host ?