Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.25] testsuite: 39 failed

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi Paul!

> Thanks for reporting that.  That's most likely due to an
> incompatibility between NetBSD and POSIX; see
> <http://gnats.netbsd.org/43154>.  To test my
> theory, please try the following two patches,
> which work around that incompatibility:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-11/msg00094.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-11/msg00100.html
> 
> If they fix the problem, the bug should be resolved in the
> next release of GNU tar.

Indeed, these patches work, thank you. Test 39 in particular succeeds
and the statistics now are:
96 tests were successful.
22 tests were skipped.

Thanks,
 Thomas