[Bug 246618] textproc/py-sphinx: fails to build with static bsdtar(1) after r534966

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--- Comment #10 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #8)
> Tijl, why bug 215882 limits USE_LOCALE to configure and build phases? This port needs to set UTF-8 locale during extract phase.

The logic behind that was that there's ports tree code and upstream code.  That
commit forces the C locale for the ports tree.  USE_LOCALE can then be used to
set a different locale for the upstream code.

I agree it would make sense to extract files using the upstream locale, but I
find it strange that tar worries about encoding.  It should just treat file
names as binary data like the file system does.  How else can it handle packing
and extracting /home with users using different locales?

The error with static tar is probably because it cannot load modules from
/usr/lib/i18n.

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