Hi Giacomo - thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I (still) don't see a
good way for Automake can automatically deal with this problem. After
reading the various links in your message, it seems even less feasible.
Automatically switching to tar-pax if the current id is too large feels
like too bi
Good morning,
GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) uses GNU Autotools. A Gnuastro
developer encountered the "Numeric user ID too large" error when
generating a tarball with the 'make dist' command on his macOS (Monterey
12.3) laptop. His user id is an integer with 9 digits, which is too big
for
