Re: [PATCH v2] kheaders: making headers archive reproducible

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:49:47PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>   GEN     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
> tar: unrecognized option '--sort=name'
> Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
> make[2]: *** [kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 64
> make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> $ tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.26
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Wow that's an old version of tar.  2011?  What happens if you use a more
modern one?

thanks,

greg k-h