ver 3.0.05 determine tar executable on --help output error

[TrueType]

$ make_file -- of
dies with message "this version of tar is not supported\n"

The Perl script tries to read a
$ tar --help
output with a regular expression /(?:bsdtar|gnu\s+tar)/i - which fails as the term "GNU" comes on a second line - and I expect this regular expression to be single line?? Why use "tar --help" but "tar --version"?

For me stupid I firstly guessed a March 2009 version of mysql_sandbox may restrict to support a later tar version 1.22 of Mai 2009. I then purged my tar package despite all Debian/Ubuntu warnings and tried to install an older version of it. Don't do this. The tar non-tar packages are in bad condition ;)

I am using a German version of Debian/Ubuntu
Linux version 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch5) (<email address hidden>) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115

[TrueType (henri-nathanson)]

sorry, the command is
$ make_sandbox

and if fails in line 127:

 if ($tar_version =~ /(?:bsdtar|gnu\s+tar)/i) {
                die "this version of tar is not supported\n";
            }

should it not be:

 if ($tar_version !~ /(?:bsdtar|gnu\s+tar)/i) {
                die "this version of tar is not supported\n";
            }

[TrueType (henri-nathanson)]

sorry, I drunk my stupip pills... the script runs with:
(change --help to --version)

        if ($which_tar) {
            chomp $which_tar;
            $tar_executable = $which_tar;
            my $tar_version = qx($tar_executable --version)
                or die "can't find tar program\n";
            unless ($tar_version =~ /(?:bsdtar|gnu\s+tar)/i) {
                die "this version of tar is not supported\n";
            }
        }

[Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia)]

fixed in version 3.0.12 (actually, it was fixed long ago, but I forgot to update this bug)