Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only

[bmarwell]

Affected version

4.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Bug description

On AIX only:

# tar xf ../apache-maven-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz
tar: directory checksum error (0 != 73174)

But when using GNU tar from the AIX OSS toolbox:

# /opt/freeware/bin/tar xf ../apache-maven-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz; echo $?
0

Found on the interweb:

• https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/aix-43/0511-169-extracting-tar-file-a-directory-checksum-error-on-media-787196/
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-tar-command-not-able-uncompress-ci0i7mlop601-media-package

Citation from the IBM link:

AIX TAR doesn't uncompress files with long names

So if we have those, let's just ignore AIX's problems and fast-forward into 2025.
However, if we do not have long filenames, this should have worked.

I can tell you from working with AIX, AIX tar always has been problematic, so do not put too much effort into this issue.