Workaround for tar 1.27's bug in Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 latest tar version is 1.27.1:

tar --versiontar (GNU tar) 1.27.1

But compiling Yocto (as provided by Altera: http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acdsinst/13.0/156/ib_installers/linux-socfpga-13.02-RC10-src.bsx, and instructions given here: http://rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/Documentation/AlteraSoCDevelopmentBoardYoctoGettingStarted) have been giving this error:

| tar: --same-order option cannot be used with -c| Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.

Attributed to 1.27's tar feature (http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-October/085105.html). Alternatively I download tar 1.26 from GNU website and compilation gives the following error:

  CC     argp-eexst.oIn file included from argp.h:24:0,                 from argp-eexst.c:27:./stdio.h:479:1: error: ‘gets’ undeclared here (not in a function) _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead"); ^

So does anyone have any workaround when compiling Yocto in the latest patched Ubuntu 14.04?