Re: [Bug-tar] 1.16.1: T-null.at vs. echo backslash interpretation

[Paul Eggert]

Christian Weisgerber <address@hidden> writes:

> The T-null regression test erroneously fails on OpenBSD (and probably
> some other platforms as well).  The problem is that the expected
> output string
>
> ...
> [jeden\ndwa
> trzy
> ],
> ...
>
> is passed on to the echo(1) command in the generated testsuite script:

Thanks for reporting that.  I think this is actually a bug in
Autoconf, not tar.  It is fixed in Autoconf 2.61a
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.61a.tar.gz>, which uses
"printf '%s\n'" rather than 'echo' to handle troublesome strings like
that

You should be able to apply the fix by installing Autoconf 2.61a,
touching tar's configure.ac, and then running 'make'.