Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar Build failure in rmt/rmt.c (patch included)

[Paul Eggert]

Giles Lean <address@hidden> writes:

> The simplest is a rmt/rmt.c compilation problem which is
> due to a misplaced #endif; a patch for that is below.

Thanks; we've fixed that in the CVS sources.

> The workaround for the configure failure is to comment out the test of
> "ls -t".  (Fix unknown).

This most likely indicates that you have a nonstandard version of 'ls'
in your PATH, which can break later tests.  Please try to see why 'ls
-t' isn't working for you: it may explain some of the later failures.