When star is installed, it installs a link /usr/bin/tar ->/usr/bin/star GNU tar is still present as /bin/tar When OpenOffice is emerged there is a "bootstrap" script which seems to have the environment variable COMPATH="/usr/bin" so that only /usr/bin is used during the build (??). So after a successful build of dmake, an attempt to unpack freetype-whatever.tar.gz brings the message that "tar -xvf -" is not a valid command/options combination and the emerge fails. This was somewhat of a surprise to me ;-(, and when I checked tar myself, it all worked OK. But I had a PATH with /bin:/usr/bin so /bin/tar was what I got. The problem occurs because of star and the bootstrap/build script as explained above. Unmerging star first permitted openoffice to unpack,compile and install OK. I have now remerged star but thought I should pass on the experience, and suggest that COMPATH contain at least /bin:/usr/bin in future. Either that or put in a dependency on GNU tar and check that it's what you get during ./configure Cheers, Len Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I've just marked star a blocker on openoffice. I'll try into making it work again with the upcomming rc2 ebuild
*** Bug 29718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
