tar command not found when executing make in extras/contrib

[mysteryegg]

Hello,

I am running Leopard (although my user account was originally set up in Jaguar), have what I believe to the latest Xcode, X11, fink, git, SVN...

Following the instructions from http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile I have obtained vlc via git, commented out the line in .cshrc to disable fink, restarted Terminal, run the bootstrap under extras/contrib, but when i try to make, I get:

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[MyApple:~/vlc/extras/contrib] jonathanlee% make make -C src all rm -rf autoconf || true bunzip2 -c autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2 | tar xf - --exclude='[*?:<>\|]' /bin/sh: tar: command not found make[1]: *** [autoconf] Error 127 make: *** [all] Error 2

Even if I don't disable fink, the result appears to be the same, although I can run the tar command from terminal without a problem. Any ideas?

[mysteryegg]

First instinct was a problem with my path... I just punched $PATH and got:
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: Command not found.