[GNU tar 1.32] testsuite: 89 failed

[Dennis Clarke]

This is hardly worth looking into because the system involved is a real
museum piece. Regardless I can file this for posterity and it can be
marked as a "WONT FIX" perhaps.

On a Sun SPARCStation 20 running Solaris 8 and with a very excellent GCC
compiler version 4.5.1, yes really, I saw :

ss20$ gcc --version
gcc (Blastwave.org Inc. Mon Aug  9 07:10:45 GMT 2010) 4.5.1
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

ss20$
ss20$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/bw --disable-silent-rules \
> --enable-dependency-tracking --with-gzip=/opt/bw/bin/gzip \
> --with-bzip2=/opt/bw/bin/bzip2 --without-gnu-ld \
> --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/bw
 checking for a BSD-compatible install... build-aux/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... build-aux/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether /opt/bw/bin/gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /opt/bw/bin/gmake supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '16411' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '20002' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... plaintar
checking whether /opt/bw/bin/gmake supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for style of include used by /opt/bw/bin/gmake... GNU
checking for gcc... /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc... gcc3
checking for /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
checking for /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO 
Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99
checking for ranlib... /opt/bw/bin/granlib
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc 
-std=gnu99 -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/xpg4/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether _XOPEN_SOURCE should be defined... no
checking for Minix Amsterdam compiler... no
checking for ar... /opt/bw/bin/gar
checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... 
(cached) no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... (cached) no
checking for inline... inline
checking for fcntl.h... yes
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checking for memory.h... (cached) yes
checking for net/errno.h... no
checking for sgtty.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for sys/device.h... no
checking for sys/gentape.h... no
checking for sys/inet.h... no
checking for sys/io/trioctl.h... no
checking for sys/mtio.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for sys/tprintf.h... no
checking for sys/tape.h... no
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for features.h... no
checking for linewrap.h... no
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for fnmatch.h... yes
checking for wctype.h... yes
checking for stdio_ext.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for getopt.h... no
checking for sys/cdefs.h... no
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for crtdefs.h... no
checking for langinfo.h... yes
checking for xlocale.h... no
checking for sys/mman.h... yes
checking for priv.h... no
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for selinux/selinux.h... no
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking for sysexits.h... yes
checking for utime.h... yes
checking for netdb.h... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... yes
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checking for sys/buf.h... yes
checking sys/mkdev.h usability... yes
checking sys/mkdev.h presence... yes
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checking for st_fstype string in struct stat... yes
checking sys/acl.h usability... yes
checking sys/acl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/acl.h... yes
checking for library containing acl_get_file... no
checking for mode_t... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for off_t... yes
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
checking for major_t... yes
checking for minor_t... yes
checking for dev_t... yes
checking for ino_t... yes
checking for ssize_t... yes
checking for fchmod... yes
checking for flockfile... yes
checking for funlockfile... yes
checking for pathconf... yes
checking for btowc... yes
checking for canonicalize_file_name... no
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for readlink... yes
checking for realpath... yes
checking for readlinkat... no
checking for chown... yes
checking for fchown... yes
checking for _set_invalid_parameter_handler... no
checking for fchdir... yes
checking for fdopendir... no
checking for faccessat... no
checking for fchmodat... no
checking for lchmod... no
checking for fcntl... yes
checking for symlink... yes
checking for mempcpy... no
checking for fnmatch... yes
checking for isblank... no
checking for iswctype... yes
checking for mbsrtowcs... yes
checking for wmemchr... yes
checking for wmemcpy... yes
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checking for futimens... no
checking for getdelim... no
checking for getdtablesize... yes
checking for getprogname... no
checking for getexecname... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for iswcntrl... yes
checking for iswblank... no
checking for link... yes
checking for openat... no
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checking for lstat... yes
checking for mbsinit... yes
checking for mbrtowc... yes
checking for mprotect... yes
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checking for mknodat... no
checking for mknod... yes
checking for tzset... yes
checking for nl_langinfo... yes
checking for renameat... no
checking for renameat2... no
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checking for sleep... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for strdup... yes
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checking for strtoimax... no
checking for strtoumax... no
checking for symlinkat... no
checking for localtime_r... yes
checking for timegm... no
checking for pipe... yes
checking for unlinkat... no
checking for utime... yes
checking for futimes... no
checking for futimesat... no
checking for utimensat... no
checking for lutimes... no
checking for vasnprintf... no
checking for wcrtomb... yes
checking for wcwidth... yes
checking for mkfifo... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for fsync... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for C/C++ restrict keyword... __restrict
checking whether clearerr_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether feof_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether ferror_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fflush_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fgets_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fputc_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fputs_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fread_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether fwrite_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether getchar_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether putc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether putchar_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether strerror_r is declared... no
checking for strerror_r... no
checking whether strerror_r returns char *... no
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking for d_ino member in directory struct... yes
checking for long file names... yes
checking whether <wchar.h> uses 'inline' correctly... yes
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... none
checking whether // is distinct from /... no
checking whether realpath works... no
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for working chown... yes
checking whether chown dereferences symlinks... yes
checking whether chown honors trailing slash... no
checking whether chown always updates ctime... yes
checking whether the preprocessor supports include_next... yes
checking whether system header files limit the line length... no
checking if environ is properly declared... no
checking for complete errno.h... yes
checking type of array argument to getgroups... gid_t
checking whether lstat correctly handles trailing slash... no
checking whether fchdir is declared... yes
checking for working fcntl.h... no (bad O_NOATIME, O_NOFOLLOW)
checking for promoted mode_t type... mode_t
checking for mbstate_t... yes
checking whether stdin defaults to large file offsets... yes
checking whether fseeko is declared... yes
checking for fseeko... yes
checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no
checking for nlink_t... yes
checking whether getcwd (NULL, 0) allocates memory for result... no
checking for getcwd with POSIX signature... yes
checking whether getcwd is declared... yes
checking whether getdelim is declared... no
checking whether getdtablesize is declared... yes
checking whether getline is declared... no
checking for getopt.h... (cached) no
checking for struct timeval... yes
checking for wide-enough struct timeval.tv_sec member... yes
checking whether limits.h has LLONG_MAX, WORD_BIT, ULLONG_WIDTH etc.... no
checking for wint_t... yes
checking whether wint_t is too small... no
checking for unsigned long long int... yes
checking for long long int... yes
checking whether stdint.h conforms to C99... no
checking sys/inttypes.h usability... yes
checking sys/inttypes.h presence... yes
checking for sys/inttypes.h... yes
checking sys/bitypes.h usability... no
checking sys/bitypes.h presence... no
checking for sys/bitypes.h... no
checking for bit size of ptrdiff_t... 32
checking for bit size of size_t... 32
checking for bit size of sig_atomic_t... 32
checking for bit size of wchar_t... 32
checking for bit size of wint_t... 32
checking whether sig_atomic_t is signed... yes
checking whether wchar_t is signed... yes
checking whether wint_t is signed... yes
checking for ptrdiff_t integer literal suffix...
checking for size_t integer literal suffix... u
checking for sig_atomic_t integer literal suffix...
checking for wchar_t integer literal suffix... l
checking for wint_t integer literal suffix... l
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking whether the inttypes.h PRIxNN macros are broken... no
checking whether iswcntrl works... yes
checking for towlower... yes
checking for wctype_t... yes
checking for wctrans_t... yes
checking for O_CLOEXEC... no
checking for wchar_t... yes
checking for good max_align_t... no
checking whether NULL can be used in arbitrary expressions... yes
checking whether malloc, realloc, calloc are POSIX compliant... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for a traditional japanese locale... none
checking for a transitional chinese locale... none
checking for a french Unicode locale... none
checking for mmap... yes
checking for MAP_ANONYMOUS... yes
checking whether memchr works... yes
checking whether memrchr is declared... no
checking whether <limits.h> defines MIN and MAX... no
checking whether <sys/param.h> defines MIN and MAX... no
checking whether time_t is signed... yes
checking whether alarm is declared... yes
checking for working mktime... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for struct tm.tm_zone... no
checking whether tzname is declared... yes
checking for tzname... yes
checking for struct tm.tm_gmtoff... no
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for compound literals... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library >= 2.1 or uClibc... no
checking for library containing setfilecon... no
checking whether setenv is declared... no
checking search.h usability... yes
checking search.h presence... yes
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checking for tsearch... yes
checking for sigset_t... yes
checking whether snprintf returns a byte count as in C99... no
checking whether snprintf is declared... yes
checking whether strdup is declared... yes
checking whether strerror(0) succeeds... yes
checking whether strndup is declared... no
checking whether strnlen is declared... no
checking whether strtoimax is declared... no
checking whether strtoumax is declared... no
checking for struct timespec in <time.h>... yes
checking whether unsetenv is declared... no
checking whether the utimes function works... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for intmax_t... yes
checking where to find the exponent in a 'double'... word 0 bit 20
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checking for mbrtowc... (cached) yes
checking for wcrtomb... (cached) yes
checking whether _snprintf is declared... no
checking whether vsnprintf is declared... yes
checking for sys/acl.h... (cached) yes
checking for library containing acl_get_file... (cached) no
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checking for library containing acl_trivial... no
checking for acl_trivial... no
checking for alloca as a compiler built-in... yes
checking whether program_invocation_name is declared... no
checking whether program_invocation_short_name is declared... no
checking whether program_invocation_name is defined... no
checking whether program_invocation_short_name is defined... no
checking whether btowc(0) is correct... yes
checking whether btowc(EOF) is correct... guessing yes
checking for __builtin_expect... yes
checking whether this system has an arbitrary file name length limit... yes
checking for library containing clock_gettime... -lrt
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checking for clock_settime... yes
checking for closedir... yes
checking for d_ino member in directory struct... (cached) yes
checking for dirfd... no
checking whether dirfd is declared... no
checking whether dirfd is a macro... no
checking how to get the file descriptor associated with an open DIR*... 
dd_fd
checking whether // is distinct from /... (cached) no
checking whether dup works... yes
checking whether dup2 works... yes
checking for error_at_line... no
checking for euidaccess... no
checking libgen.h usability... yes
checking libgen.h presence... yes
checking for libgen.h... yes
checking for getgroups... yes
checking for working getgroups... yes
checking for library containing eaccess... -lgen
checking for eaccess... yes
checking for access... yes
checking for fchownat... no
checking whether fcntl handles F_DUPFD correctly... yes
checking whether fcntl understands F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC... no
checking whether fdopendir is declared... no
checking for getxattr with XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL macros... no
checking for struct stat.st_blocks... yes
checking for flexible array member... yes
checking whether conversion from 'int' to 'long double' works... yes
checking for working GNU fnmatch... no
checking whether isblank is declared... no
checking whether isblank is declared... (cached) no
checking for __fpending... yes
checking whether __fpending is declared... yes
checking for fseeko... (cached) yes
checking whether getcwd handles long file names properly... yes, but 
with shorter paths
checking for flockfile... (cached) yes
checking for funlockfile... (cached) yes
checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether getdtablesize works... yes
checking for getgroups... (cached) yes
checking for working getgroups... (cached) yes
checking whether getgroups handles negative values... yes
checking for getline... no
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking whether getpagesize is declared... yes
checking whether program_invocation_name is declared... (cached) no
checking whether program_invocation_short_name is declared... (cached) no
checking whether __argv is declared... no
checking whether __progname is defined in default libraries...
checking whether gettimeofday clobbers localtime buffer... no
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checking for group_member... no
checking whether INT32_MAX < INTMAX_MAX... yes
checking whether INT64_MAX == LONG_MAX... no
checking whether UINT32_MAX < UINTMAX_MAX... yes
checking whether UINT64_MAX == ULONG_MAX... no
checking whether iswblank is declared... no
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checking whether langinfo.h defines T_FMT_AMPM... yes
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checking whether langinfo.h defines ERA... yes
checking whether langinfo.h defines YESEXPR... yes
checking for lchown... yes
checking whether the compiler supports the __inline keyword... yes
checking whether link obeys POSIX... no
checking for __xpg4... yes
checking whether locale.h conforms to POSIX:2001... yes
checking whether struct lconv is properly defined... no
checking for struct lconv.decimal_point... yes
checking whether lseek detects pipes... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... (cached) yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... guessing no
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing no
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing no
checking for mempcpy... (cached) no
checking for memrchr... no
checking whether mkdir handles trailing slash... yes
checking whether mkdir handles trailing dot... yes
checking for mkdtemp... no
checking for mkfifo... yes
checking whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes... no
checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges... yes
checking for __mktime_internal... no
checking whether YESEXPR works... yes
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checking whether open recognizes a trailing slash... no
checking for opendir... yes
checking for struct tm.tm_zone... (cached) no
checking whether tzname is declared... (cached) yes
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checking whether program_invocation_name is declared... (cached) no
checking whether program_invocation_short_name is declared... (cached) no
checking for raise... yes
checking for rawmemchr... no
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checking whether readlink signature is correct... yes
checking whether readlink handles trailing slash correctly... no
checking for working re_compile_pattern... no
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking whether isblank is declared... (cached) no
checking whether rename honors trailing slash on destination... no
checking whether rename honors trailing slash on source... no
checking whether rename manages hard links correctly... yes
checking whether rename manages existing destinations correctly... yes
checking linux/fs.h usability... no
checking linux/fs.h presence... no
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checking selinux/flask.h presence... no
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checking for snprintf... (cached) yes
checking whether snprintf respects a size of 1... yes
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checking whether stat handles trailing slashes on files... no
checking for struct stat.st_atim.tv_nsec... yes
checking whether struct stat.st_atim is of type struct timespec... yes
checking for struct stat.st_birthtimespec.tv_nsec... no
checking for struct stat.st_birthtimensec... no
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checking for working stdalign.h... no
checking for va_copy... yes
checking for good max_align_t... (cached) no
checking whether NULL can be used in arbitrary expressions... (cached) yes
checking which flavor of printf attribute matches inttypes macros... system
checking for stpcpy... no
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checking whether strncasecmp is declared... yes
checking for strchrnul... no
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checking whether strtoll is declared... yes
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checking whether symlink handles trailing slash correctly... no
checking for nlink_t... (cached) yes
checking whether localtime_r is declared... yes
checking whether localtime_r is compatible with its POSIX signature... yes
checking whether localtime loops forever near extrema... no
checking for timezone_t... no
checking whether tzset clobbers localtime buffer... no
checking whether unlink honors trailing slashes... no
checking whether unlink of a parent directory fails as it should... 
guessing yes
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checking for vasprintf... no
checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking whether snprintf respects a size of 1... (cached) yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing no
checking whether iswcntrl works... (cached) yes
checking for towlower... (cached) yes
checking for wctype_t... (cached) yes
checking for wctrans_t... (cached) yes
checking whether wcwidth is declared... yes
checking whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for struct stat.st_blksize... yes
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checking for sys/mtio.h... (cached) yes
checking which ioctl field to test for reversed bytes... mt_type
checking whether to build rmt... yes
checking for remote tape header files... yes
checking for sys/buf.h... (cached) yes
checking for struct stat.st_blksize... (cached) yes
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checking sys/xattr.h usability... no
checking sys/xattr.h presence... no
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checking attr/xattr.h usability... no
checking attr/xattr.h presence... no
checking for attr/xattr.h... no
checking for library containing getxattr... no
checking whether getgrgid is declared... yes
checking whether getpwuid is declared... yes
checking whether time is declared... yes
checking for waitpid... yes
checking for remote shell... /usr/bin/rsh
checking for default archive format... GNU
checking for default archive... -
checking for default blocking... 20
checking for default quoting style... escape
checking for ld... /usr/ccs/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking 32-bit host C ABI... yes
checking for 64-bit host... no
checking for the common suffixes of directories in the library search 
path... lib,lib
checking for iconv... yes
checking for working iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... /opt/bw/lib/libiconv.so 
-L/opt/bw/lib -R/opt/bw/lib
checking for iconv declaration...
         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t 
*inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking iconv.h usability... yes
checking iconv.h presence... yes
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checking how to link with libiconv... /opt/bw/lib/libiconv.so 
-L/opt/bw/lib -R/opt/bw/lib
checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no
checking whether to use NLS... no
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/atlocal
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating gnu/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating scripts/Makefile
config.status: creating rmt/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands
ss20$

The compile ran just fine and the testsuite was a very very long process
but only a single item there to note :

ERROR: 204 tests were run,
1 failed unexpectedly.
30 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might help:

   To: <bug-tar@gnu.org>
   Subject: [GNU tar 1.32] testsuite: 89 failed

You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.  Its output may
be found below `tests/testsuite.dir'.

gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:1838: check-local] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
'/opt/bw/build/tar-1.32_SunOS5.8_sun4m.001/tests'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:1690: check-am] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
'/opt/bw/build/tar-1.32_SunOS5.8_sun4m.001/tests'
gmake: *** [Makefile:1410: check-recursive] Error 1


Still, that looks pretty good to me. The test 89 seems to be the only 
hitch and there I see :

ss20$
ss20$ cd tests/testsuite.dir/089
ss20$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   3 dclarke  devl         512 Dec 15 03:46 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 dclarke  devl         512 Dec 15 09:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 dclarke  devl         512 Dec 15 03:46 gnu
-rwxr-xr-x   1 dclarke  devl         254 Dec 15 03:46 run
-rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  devl        1040 Dec 15 03:46 testsuite.log
ss20$
ss20$ cat testsuite.log
#                             -*- compilation -*-
89. extrac09.at:34: testing extracting even when . and .. are unreadable ...
./extrac09.at:37:
mkdir gnu
(cd gnu
TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu
export TEST_TAR_FORMAT
TAR_OPTIONS="-H gnu"
export TAR_OPTIONS
rm -rf *


echo "test" > $$
chmod 0 $$
cat $$ > /dev/null 2>&1
result=$?
rm -f $$
test $result -eq 0 && exit 77


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
status=$?
chmod a+r . ..
cmp f extract/f || status=$?
exit $status
)
--- /dev/null   2024-12-15 03:46:33.000000000 +0000
+++ 
/opt/bw/build/tar-1.32_SunOS5.8_sun4m.001/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/89/stderr 
  2024-12-15 03:46:34.440269000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+tar: unable to record current working directory: Permission denied
+cmp: extract/f: No such file or directory
./extrac09.at:37: exit code was 2, expected 0
89. extrac09.at:34: 89. extracting even when . and .. are unreadable 
(extrac09.at:34): FAILED (extrac09.at:37)
ss20$

Likely a non-issue but it feels nice to see code pretty much just work
when subjected to bizarre and strange old old circumstances. Very much a
standards conforming system but really SUSv2 and C99 clean at most.


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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken