Commit 1ff0b63f4898 "Accept only position-sensitive (file-selection) options in file list files" has introduced a pointer indirection bug that breaks TAR_OPTIONS parsing.
The problem shows up when running the test suite on FreeBSD 12.2 where it can be simplified to this reproducer: $ export TAR_OPTIONS='--pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=mtime,delete=atime,delete=ctime' $ tar Segmentation fault (core dumped) Here's the fix: --- src/tar.c.orig 2021-01-17 15:26:53 UTC +++ src/tar.c @@ -2248,7 +2248,7 @@ parse_default_options (struct tar_args *args) if (argp_parse (&argp, ws.ws_offs + ws.ws_wordc, ws.ws_wordv, - ARGP_IN_ORDER|ARGP_NO_EXIT, &idx, &args)) + ARGP_IN_ORDER|ARGP_NO_EXIT, &idx, args)) abort (); /* shouldn't happen */ args->loc = save_loc_ptr; if (name_more_files ()) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de