Re: [Bug-tar] On upcoming release

[Jack Howarth]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 05:55:53PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-08/txtB_H8f4It7m.txt
> >
> 
> I have applied that patch. Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

Sergey,
   Thanks. I can confirm that now current tar git now produces the same 
testsuite failure as the 1.28 release.

 30: terminal input                                  FAILED (iotty.at:35)

Jacks-Mac-Pro:tar.git howarth$ cat ./tests/testsuite.dir/030/testsuite.log
#                             -*- compilation -*-
30. iotty.at:26: testing terminal input ...
./iotty.at:35:
mkdir posix
(cd posix
TEST_TAR_FORMAT=posix
export TEST_TAR_FORMAT
TAR_OPTIONS="-H posix"
export TAR_OPTIONS
rm -rf *

test -x $abs_builddir/ttyemu || exit 77
TAPE=-
export TAPE
ttyemu -t5 -i/dev/null tar -x
rc=$?
# Skip test if ttyemu can't do its job
test $rc -eq 126 && exit 77
echo $rc
ttyemu -t5 -i/dev/null tar -xz
rc=$?
# Skip test if ttyemu can't do its job
test $rc -eq 126 && exit 77
echo $rc
ttyemu -t5 -i/dev/null tar -c .
rc=$?
# Skip test if ttyemu can't do its job
test $rc -eq 126 && exit 77
echo $rc
)
--- -   2016-04-05 14:01:20.000000000 -0400
+++ /Users/howarth/tar.git/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/30/stdout      
2016-04-05 14:01:20.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-tar: Refusing to read archive contents from terminal (missing -f option?)
-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
 2
-tar: Refusing to read archive contents from terminal (missing -f option?)
-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
 2
-tar: Refusing to write archive contents to terminal (missing -f option?)
-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
 2
 
30. iotty.at:26: 30. terminal input (iotty.at:26): FAILED (iotty.at:35)

Any idea how to solve this one on darwin?
         Jack