[ft-devel] PaxHeaders directories when using BSD tar

[Stephen Fisher]

I unpacked freetype-2.5.4 on a NetBSD 6.1.5 machine and the configure 
script failed like this:

# MAKE=gmake ./configure
builds/PaxHeaders.20567/detect.mk:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.

These PaxHeaders.xxx directories were created when using the standard 
BSD tar program.  When I downloaded and used GNU tar the build worked 
fine.  Can freetype be packaged using a more portable tar method?

(Please CC me as I'm not on the list)