Bug in tar option parsing.

ralda at gmx.de ralda at gmx.de
Tue Apr 17 02:26:07 UTC 2012


Hi Rob !

>   build/host/tar --exclude=ld-uClibc.so.lds -c *.so.*
> build/host/tar: invalid option -- '-'

Did you disable the long option support in your Busybox binary? On my
glibc based Busybox without long options I get exactly this behavior,
but with a long option enabled binary/tar the exclude works as expected.

--
Harald


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