Hauke Fath <ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de> wrote: >On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:38:08 +0000, Robert Swindells wrote: >>> The workaround was to symlink /usr/pkg/bin/gtar to .tools/bin/tar. Is >>> there any pkgsrc magic for making gtar pose as tar(1), or am I on my >>> own? >> >> You can put a line in the pkgsrc Makefile of: >> >> EXTRACT_USING= gtar > >I've seen (and used) EXTRACT_USING. But does this just cover extracts >by the pkgsrc framework, or also any invocations of tar by the >package's build system?
Don't know. The package builds fine for me on -current, what is unusual about your build host ?