diff --git a/src/bin/tar/config.h b/src/bin/tar/config.h
index a96a13dd9b..a6e7e46f22 100644
--- a/src/bin/tar/config.h
+++ b/src/bin/tar/config.h
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@
 #define STDC_HEADERS 1
 
 /* Define to 1 if strerror_r returns char *. */
-#define STRERROR_R_CHAR_P 1
+/* #undef STRERROR_R_CHAR_P */
 
 /* Define to 1 if you can safely include both <sys/time.h> and <time.h>. */
 #define TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME 1