diff -r 17b5e2fe0130 -r 717ce6d4eaa1 common/autoconf/basics.m4
--- a/common/autoconf/basics.m4	Tue Jan 10 11:31:31 2017 +0100
+++ b/common/autoconf/basics.m4	Wed Jan 11 13:00:05 2017 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2011, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2011, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -1011,6 +1011,8 @@
   # Test which kind of tar was found
   if test "x$($TAR --version | $GREP "GNU tar")" != "x"; then
     TAR_TYPE="gnu"
+  elif test "x$($TAR --version | $GREP "bsdtar")" != "x"; then
+    TAR_TYPE="bsd"
   elif test "x$($TAR -v | $GREP "bsdtar")" != "x"; then
     TAR_TYPE="bsd"
   elif test "x$OPENJDK_BUILD_OS" = "xsolaris"; then