#42492: macports doesn't work with gnutar ----------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: xeron.oskom@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.2.99 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ----------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by cal@…): * cc: cal@… (added) Comment: Mavericks doesn't come with gnutar, so where does the gnutar apparently referenced in `$portutil::autoconf::tar_path` come from? What does `variable tar_path` contain in `/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/macports_autoconf.tcl`? It seems that archives created on the buildbot with `/usr/bin/tar` (which is BSD tar there) will print these messages when extracted with GNU tar. Now, that shouldn't be a problem, because the only tar that should be present while configuring MacPorts should be this very `/usr/bin/tar` unless a user modified `/usr/bin` and created a `gnutar` file there, which definitely is an unsupported configuration. However, maybe we should still fix this similar to what I've done in r116751 to provide a more robust setup? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42492#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X