diff --git a/srcpkgs/tar/template b/srcpkgs/tar/template
index 37c50f14579..641409c5e5a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tar/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tar/template
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ conflicts="chroot-tar>=0"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="The GNU tape archiver with remote magnetic tape support"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-distfiles="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=5a5369f464502a598e938029c310d4b3abd51e6bb8dfd045663e61c8ea9f6d41
 homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/"
 license="GPL-3"
+distfiles="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+checksum=5a5369f464502a598e938029c310d4b3abd51e6bb8dfd045663e61c8ea9f6d41
+
+pre_configure() {
+	sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' lib/stdio.in.h
+}