Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.15.1: test #29 failed on Solaris 8

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for that bug report.  It is due to a bug in Solaris 8 "join".
One temporary workaround is to install GNU coreutils first, so that
you can use its "join".

I installed this patch to GNU tar.

2005-01-13  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * tests/testsuite.at (RE_CHECK): Use "join - file", not
        "join file -", to work around a bug in Solaris 8 join.
        Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki.

--- testsuite.at        13 Jan 2005 16:00:59 -0000      1.5
+++ testsuite.at        13 Jan 2005 20:57:23 -0000      1.6
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ $1)],$2,$3,$4,$5,$6)])
 
 m4_define([RE_CHECK],[
 AT_DATA([$1.re],[$2])
-awk '{print NR " " $[]0}' $1.re > $[]$.1
-awk '{print NR " " $[]0}' $1 | join $[]$.1 - |
+awk '{print NR " " $[]0}' $1 > $[]$.1
+awk '{print NR " " $[]0}' $1.re | join - $[]$.1 |
 while read NUM RE LINE
 do
   echo "$LINE" | grep -- "$RE" >/dev/null || exit 1