Why MSYS can't recognize tar-ustar option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE ?

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Published on 2010-04-03T06:09:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 11:13 UTC
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Hi all!

When I'm trying to run autogen from MSys 1.11 on a source, it always giving an error called,

configure.ac:9: option 'tar-ustar' not recognized

Can anyone please help me to get-rid of this error ?

Note: andtar-v7, tar-ustar, tar-pax. all these 3 didn't work. Thank you...

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