On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:18:01PM +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
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  | Is there a description anywhere of what was required to get around the
  | build problems reported back in October when tar was changed to be a
  | link to pax ?
  | 
  | I have got current sources and have rebuilt and installed pax/tar
  | from them, but am still getting the error caused by the empty archive.

It's a bit hard to debug your problem without more details...