While trying to compile tar 1.19.90 on a Solaris system, I encountered this bug

configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: fcntl.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: fcntl.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to [email protected] ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------ ##


configure: WARNING: stropts.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stropts.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stropts.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stropts.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stropts.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: stropts.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to [email protected] ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------ ##

The source file tar-1.19.90.tar.gz is downloaded from
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
It is configured using
./configure --prefix=/home/kkusuman/software/myroot/ 2>&1 | tee configure.log

The configure.log is attached for your reference

Attachment: configure.log
Description: Binary data

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