From 2e80ff192c9de76579a34235cb20e68bd0d4d9d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:51:30 +0000
Subject: Update to tar-1.17, fixes #2029.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8164 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/tar.xml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter06/tar.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml
index 4d1d30767..7f8cd7c9e 100644
--- a/chapter06/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter06/tar.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Tar</title>
 
+    <para os="a">One of the tests in the testsuite (number 12, exclude) fails,
+    at least on recent linux systems, because the output needs to be sorted
+    before it is diffed. If you are going to run the testsuite, fix this by
+    applying the following patch before you configure: </para>
+
+<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sort-exclude-test-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
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