On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:19:10AM +0000, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> Automake defaults to the 'v7' legacy tar format in GNU tar, through
> passing of the '-o' parameter to GNU tar. Enabling this option results
> in errors for users with 32 bit UIDs:
> 
>     $ make dist
>     ...
>     tardir=openvswitch-2.3.90 && ${TAR-tar} chof - "$tardir" | GZIP=--best 
> gzip -c >openvswitch-2.3.90.tar.gz
>     tar: value 12345678 out of uid_t range 0..2097151
>     tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/development/ovs'
>     ...
> 
> The 'tar-ustar' format is a 1988 POSIX standard that allow longer file
> names and other niceties. It's use is an option in Automake 1.9+.
> Enable this option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen.finuc...@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mark D. Gray <mark.d.g...@intel.com>

Doesn't this affect every program that uses Automake?  Have you
reported it to the Automake mailing list?  Is there an upstream fix?
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