Lion uses LLVM instead of GCC as the default compiler. Apparently there is a bug in LLVM that causes the tarsnap build to hang, so if you're having problems, the following worked for me:
These mailing list posts were helpful: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.tarsnap.user/342
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