Hello, Here's a report from one of GNU tar users.
Regards, Sergey ------- Forwarded message Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:12:02 +0200 From: Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> To: bug-...@gnu.org Message-ID: <20100329201202.ga28...@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> Subject: [Bug-tar] 1.23: FreeBSD 7 bug affects GNU tar There is a stupid, stupid bug in FreeBSD 7 (up to and including the 7.3 release): The fdopendir() function is present in libc, but the prototype is missing from <dirent.h>. GNU tar's configure picks up fdopendir(), but since there is no prototype, it ends up typed as int fdopendir(); This is bad. fdopendir() returns a pointer, which is truncated from 64 to 32 bits on LP64 platforms. Running GNU tar's "make check" leaves a trail of coredumps behind... The macro complex around m4/dirent*.m4 and m4/fdopendir.m4 needs some sort of check if fdopendir() is declared, and if not, must provide a prototype. These macros are probably used in other GNU projects as well, and bug-tar may not be the right address, but I'm throwing it out there in the hope that it will reach somebody who knows how to deal with this properly. - -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de ------- End of Forwarded message