> Finally I seem to have figured it out;
If $PATH has another version of tar which would be found before the gnu tar, even though one explicitly puts it on the configure commandline, the #ifdef's in runtar.c don't appear to pick it up and hence its not compiled in; all that gets compiled in are the messages bitching about not having gnu tar.
Don't think so. IMHO.
Or something like that.
By setting my $PATH at configure time so that /usr/local/bin was at the front, I got a build on Sloarsis which works with gnu tar!
Bug in the configure script? Or am I misunderstanding something?
Forgot to run "make distclean" before you "./configure"?
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