tar bump patch && patch_it bug

[Terry Chan]

Well tar-1.13.93 will only compile using your patch as a dynamic binary.
Even with your patch the source still will NOT compile as a static binary
which is required for the Lunar install/rescue ISO image.  Seems like the
later alpha versions of tar are seriously broken.

tar-1.13.92 also gives the exact same problem, no static binary compile
completes.  Tested with gcc-3.3.3, as the next Lunar ISO will be using
that version of gcc3.

make LDFLAGS=-static doesn't work nor does:

LDFLAGS=-static ./configure ...

Both result in gcc compile time errors about sizes of structs changing.

Terry Chan
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:18:14AM +0100, Jerry Lundström wrote:
> Terry Chan wrote:
> >tar-1.13.25 was chosen from alpha.gnu.org because the tar developers
> >had not updated regular tar in over two years and we needed/wanted
> >some of the bug fixes and the bzip2 handling.
> >
> >What features/bug fixes from tar-1.13.93 are necessary ?
> >
> 
> Lastest tar fixes one bug that I depend on, when untaring an archive 
> using a list (-T) tar 1.13.25 will not match the whole line, it will 
> just match the begining. tar 1.13.93 matches the whole line as its 
> suppose to do.
> 
> Other then that i havn't read whats changed the last 2-3 years but I 
> can't imagine that its anything bad, what you just see from the --help 
> is more support for more formats, utf8 and more.