Re: -current tar(1) breakage

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20210326151613684558.13ed810e%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>,
Hauke Fath  <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>building editors/xemacs-nox11 on a -current machine (net-booted, if it 
>matters) fails with
>
>[...]
>Copying /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs-nox11/work/xemacs-21.4.24/etc...
>./TUTORIAL.ko: Truncated tar archive
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>[1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) (cd ${dir} && tar -cf - .) |
>      Done(1)                 (cd ${dest} && umask 022 && tar -xf -)
>Copying /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs-nox11/work/xemacs-21.4.24/lisp...
>./syntax.el: Truncated tar archive
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>[1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) (cd ${dir} && tar -cf - .) |
>      Done(1)                 (cd ${dest} && umask 022 && tar -xf -)
>
>This works on netbsd-9. What has changed in the -current tar?
>
>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?

What does the core file show?

christos