On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Dave Schmitt wrote:

> The problem is the method of extraction. I ran into the same thing. The
> package system is doing a "gzcat mysql-3.22.22.tar.gz | tar xf -" and that
> was segfaulting on my machine as well. What I did was to extract
> mysql-3.22.22.tar.gz manually into the work directory with the following:
> 
> % cd /usr/pkgsrc/databases/mysql-client/work
> % tar zxf l ../../../distfiles/mysql-3.22.22.tar.gz
> % touch .extract_done
> 
> Then you should be able to go back to the mysql-client directory and finish
> the build. I'm not sure why tar is dying but that worked for me...

I've run into some troublesome tar archives, too. I saw
"EXTRACT_USING_PAX= yes" in /pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example, and figure
it must be there for a reason. After setting that in /etc/mk.conf, 
no problem.