[Bug-tar] solaris 9 compile failure

[Jesse C]

gnu tar 1.27 (and 1.27.1) both fail to compile on my solaris 9 build host with gcc 4.6.4:

% uname -rs

SunOS 5.9

% gcc -v

Using built-in specs.

COLLECT_GCC=gcc

COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gcc-gnutools-4.6.4/libexec/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/4.6.4/lto-wrapper

Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.9

Configured with: ../gcc-4.6.4/configure --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-gnutools-4.6.4 --with-as=/usr/local/binutils/bin/as --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/local/binutils/bin/ld

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.6.4 (GCC) 

% /usr/local/binutils/bin/ld --version

GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2

Copyright 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of

the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version.

This program has absolutely no warranty.

% cd /tmp/tar-1.27 

% gmake

gmake  all-recursive

gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27'

Making all in doc

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/doc'

gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/doc'

Making all in gnu

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/gnu'

gmake  all-recursive

gmake[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/gnu'

gmake[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/gnu'

gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/gnu'

gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/gnu'

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/gnu'

Making all in lib

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/lib'

gmake  all-am

gmake[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/lib'

gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/lib'

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/lib'

Making all in rmt

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/rmt'

gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/rmt'

Making all in src

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/src'

  CCLD     tar

xheader.o: In function `sparse_map_decoder':

/tmp/tar-1.27/src/xheader.c:1461: undefined reference to `strtoimax'

misc.o: In function `strtosysint':

/tmp/tar-1.27/src/misc.c:377: undefined reference to `strtoimax'

misc.o: In function `decode_timespec':

/tmp/tar-1.27/src/misc.c:475: undefined reference to `strtoimax'

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gmake[2]: *** [tar] Error 1

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27/src'

gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tar-1.27'

gmake: *** [all] Error 2

this host/compiler/linker successfully compiled gnu tar 1.25.

thanks!

jesse