[uClibc] gnu tar

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Nov 15 15:06:54 UTC 2004


On Sunday 14 November 2004 10:34 pm, Robert Connolly wrote:
> Hello. The gnu tar in buildroot's packages is version 1.14.90. This version
> of tar seems to have a bug with uclibc. When 'tar jxf' is used it fails
> with: tar: Unaligned block (5000 bytes) in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

actually this happens in tar-1.14 too ... we noticed this in Gentoo, but 
havent had the chance to research it

tar-1.13.92 works fine
`tar -jxf` works fine
-mike



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