[OE-core] [PATCH] automake: Fix issue with tar configure failing with large UID/GIDs

[Tom Rini]

On 08/02/2011 08:34 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 08:19 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 03:14 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> +-_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) pax cpio none'
>>> ++_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) cpio pax none'
>>
>> Have you discussed that with upstream?  If not, are you confident that
>> preferring cpio will not simply mean that we are swapping one deficiency
>> for another?
> 
> A bug was filed with upstream automake.  At issue is that pax does not
> fail gracefully when it cannot create ustar archives while cpio does.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8343 and should be in the
patch header...

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation