Re: [Bug-tar] AIX 5.1 compiler issue

[Paul Eggert]

"Brandon Petty" <address@hidden> writes:

> When I built tar with the native AIX 5.1 CC compiler and GNU Make it
> errored out saying that it couldn't redefine SIZE_MAX in config.h.
> You can't remove it because it is used elsewhere and it will complain
> that it is not defined so I did the following:
>
> #ifndef SIZE_MAX
> #   define SIZE_MAX <whatever config finds>
> #endif
>
> This was in 1.16.  After the fix it compiled just fine.

Thanks for reporting it, but I'm afraid that I can't figure out what
happened from this brief description.

Can you please try it again with GNU tar 1.16.1?  Something like this:

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.16.1.tar.gz
gunzip <tar-1.16.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd tar-1.16.1
./configure
make
make check

If this doesn't work for you, please send us the output of the
above commands.  Thanks.