On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 14:27:09 +0200, Peter Kruse wrote: > Hello, > > `make check' fails under Solaris/Sparc 10. > These tests also fail with an older version (1.23). > If I can be of any help to resolve these issues please let me know.
Both these failures turn out to be tar segfaulting when the ".." directory is has "a-r" permissions. Perhaps interestingly, in the first of the tests the segfault happens in "-x" mode, while in the second its in "-c" mode. Here are the key snippets from the log file: 63. extrac09.at:24: testing no need to save dir with unreadable . and .. ... [...] mkdir dir mkdir dir/sub mkdir dir/sub/extract genfile --file dir/sub/f cd dir/sub tar -cf archive.tar f chmod a-r . .. tar -xvf archive.tar -C extract f [...] 0a1,2 > /ae/data/soft/opensource/build/tar/S510-sparcv9/tar-1.27/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/63/test-source: > line 97: 22961 Segmentation Fault (core dumped) tar -xvf archive.tar -C > extract [...] 85. listed03.at:24: testing incremental dump when the parent directory is unreadable ... [...] mkdir dir mkdir dir/sub mkdir dir/sub/a genfile --file dir/sub/a/file cd dir/sub chmod a-r .. tar -c -f archive.tar --listed-incremental=db.1 -v a [...] 1c1 < tar: a: Directory is new --- > /ae/data/soft/opensource/build/tar/S510-sparcv9/tar-1.27/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/85/test-source: > line 94: 23967 Segmentation Fault (core dumped) tar -c -f archive.tar > --listed-incremental=db.1 -v a Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239