Hi, the current version (1.22) of tar breaks build of gcj-4.4 on GNU/kFreeBSD.
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=gcj-4.4&ver=4.4.0-6j1&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&stamp=1245000137&file=log: uudecode -o - java-classes.tgz.uue | tar -C src -xvz libjava/classpath/tools/classes/gnu/classpath/tools/gjdoc/Main.class sbuild received SIGPIPE -- shutting down It looks like related to Debian bugs #525437, #532570, #525818. The problem appears when a grandchild tar is used. In the "child_pid", the child_pid is zero, the kill() signals every process in the process group of the calling process instead of themselves. Can be fixed by patch bellow. Thanks in advance Petr --- src/system.c~ 2009-03-29 05:23:17.000000000 +0200 +++ src/system.c 2009-06-16 21:11:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ if (WIFSIGNALED (wait_status)) { - kill (child_pid, WTERMSIG (wait_status)); + kill (getpid(), WTERMSIG (wait_status)); exit_status = TAREXIT_FAILURE; } else if (WEXITSTATUS (wait_status) != 0) @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ if (WIFSIGNALED (wait_status)) { - kill (child_pid, WTERMSIG (wait_status)); + kill (getpid(), WTERMSIG (wait_status)); exit_status = TAREXIT_FAILURE; } else if (WEXITSTATUS (wait_status) != 0) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533356
