Getting "pax archive volume change required" prompt during build configuration

Question

I am trying to build fastjet-3.0.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

On running the following:

./configure --enable-allcxxplugins

I get the following message:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... 
ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required.
Ready for archive volume: 1
Input archive name or "." to quit pax.
Archive name >

I tried looking up what Pax is and what to do with this error, but did not find anything useful. Any help on this will be great ! Thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks to JW Peterson's comment, I could circumvent this problem with a wrapper to pax(1):

~/local/mypax/pax

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/pax -O "$@"

This has to come earlier than the underlying pax(1) command in the $PATH environment variable:

export PATH=$HOME/local/mypax:$PATH