Re: pkg/54891: devel/arcanist do-install target uses pax with intermixed options and operands

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54891; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/54891: devel/arcanist do-install target uses pax with
 intermixed options and operands
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:41:10 +0100

 On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:20:00PM +0000, mforney%mforney.org@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         54891
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Synopsis:       devel/arcanist do-install target uses pax with intermixed options and operands
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 24 22:20:00 +0000 2020
 > >Originator:     Michael Forney
 > >Release:        pkgsrc trunk, 2020-01-24
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > Linux arrow 5.4.13+ #104 SMP Tue Jan 21 15:51:57 PST 2020 x86_64
 > >Description:
 > devel/arcanist's do-install target makes the following call to pax(1):
 > 
 > ${PAX} -rw * -s',.*\.orig$$,,' ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/${ARCANISTDIR}
 > 
 > Some implementations of pax consider all arguments after the first operand to be operands, resulting in the error:
 
 Don't use the system pax on those system. That's all.
 
 Joerg