Not many clues here.. highlights: gmake MAKE=gmake VERBOSE=-x TESTS=tar2.test check ... checking how to create a pax tar archive... none ... config.status: creating Makefile { test ! -d tar2-1.0 || { find tar2-1.0 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr tar2-1.0; }; } mkdir tar2-1.0 find tar2-1.0 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/ksh /usr/src/local/automake/tests/testSubDir/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \ || chmod -R a+r tar2-1.0 tardir=tar2-1.0 && false | GZIP=--best gzip -c >tar2-1.0.tar.gz { test ! -d tar2-1.0 || { find tar2-1.0 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr tar2-1.0; }; } case 'tar2-1.0.tar.gz' in \ *.tar.gz*) \ GZIP=--best gunzip -c tar2-1.0.tar.gz | false ;;\ *.tar.bz2*) \ bunzip2 -c tar2-1.0.tar.bz2 | false ;;\ *.tar.Z*) \ uncompress -c tar2-1.0.tar.Z | false ;;\ *.shar.gz*) \ GZIP=--best gunzip -c tar2-1.0.shar.gz | unshar ;;\ *.zip*) \ unzip tar2-1.0.zip ;;\ esac gmake: *** [distcheck] Error 1 FAIL: tar2.test
So, from the above it's hard to no what the Error actually is, however from the configure point of view, this is quite amusing: configure:1895: checking how to create a pax tar archive configure:1904: tar --version tar: unknown option -- version usage: tar [-]{crtux}[-befhjlmopqvwzHLOPXZ014578] [archive] [blocksize] [-C directory] [-T file] [-s replstr] [file ...] configure:1907: $? = 1 configure:1904: gnutar --version ./configure[1961]: gnutar: not found configure:1907: $? = 127 configure:1904: gtar --version ./configure[1961]: gtar: not found configure:1907: $? = 127 configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval gtar --format=posix -chf - "$tardir" >conftest.tar ./configure: gtar: not found configure:1950: $? = 127 configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval pax -L -x pax -w "$tardir" >conftest.tar pax: Unknown -x format: pax pax: Known -x formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar ... configure:1947: tardir=conftest.dir && eval find "$tardir" -print | cpio -H pax -L -o >conftest.tar cpio: Unknown -H format: pax cpio: Known -H formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar ... and the amusement is that on my system (NetBSD-2.0/i386) tar and cpio are both hard links to pax with suitable argv[0] & option preprocesssing. The next thing is it isn't clear to me what a "pax" archive is, given that from our pax(1) man page: -x format Specify the output archive format, with the default format being ustar... Cheers, Patrick