Re: bin/56257: tar segfaults during emacs build

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/56257; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, jsarkes%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/56257: tar segfaults during emacs build
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:13:05 +0200

 On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:30:01 +0000 (UTC), jsarkes%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > at various times including building emacs and emacs 27 tar segfaults=20
 > doing the .elc files. It has also died on me using other earlier=20
 > versions of Netbsd, 9, 9.1, 9.2. I'm used to moving and copying=20
 > directories using cpio and tar and was surprised a number of times by=20
 > the segfault.
 
 This would be the base libarchive-as-tar, right? It appears to be,=20
 well, not always good enough. Try with a=20
 
 USETOOLS+=3D gtar
 
 maybe?
 
 Cheerio,
 Hauke
 
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