Ralf, I'm running into the same issue reported:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2010-10/msg00063.html I was wondering if automake could do things a little differently to deal with this issue more graceful: Today we have something like the following in configure: pax) am__tar='pax -L -x ustar -w "$$tardir"' am__tar_='pax -L -x ustar -w "$tardir"' am__untar='pax -r' ;; If we change am__untar to: am__untar='pax -r -O' We go from pax wanting interactive input: [galak@right QorIQ_SDK_20110311_systembuilder]$ pax -r < conftest.tar pax: Cannot identify format. Searching... pax: End of archive volume 1 reached ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required. Ready for archive volume: 1 Input archive name or "." to quit pax. Archive name > to [galak@right QorIQ_SDK_20110311_systembuilder]$ pax -r -O < conftest.tar pax: Cannot identify format. Searching... pax: End of archive volume 1 reached pax: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. [galak@right QorIQ_SDK_20110311_systembuilder]$ echo $? 1 thoughts? - k