gzip support in tar broken for 12.2?

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>
To: "'Roberto A. Foglietta'" <roberto.foglietta at gmail.com>
Cc: "'Gilles Espinasse'" <g.esp at free.fr>; <busybox at busybox.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: gzip support in tar broken for 12.2?



> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Tjernlund" <tjernlund at tjernlund.se>
> > >> To: <busybox at busybox.net>
> > >> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:52 PM
> > >> Subject: gzip support in tar broken for 12.2?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > After upgrading to bb 12.2 bb tar does not understand
> > >> > the z option:
> > >> > #> tar z
> > >> > tar: invalid option -- z
> > >> >
> > >> > I am using the same .config and CONFIG_FEATURE_GZIP=y is set
> > >> >
> > >> >  Jocke
> > >> >
> > >> That's fixed by the getopt.patch in
> > >> http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.2
> > >> Or upgrade to 1.12.3
> > >>
> > >
> > > Got that one tried Roberto's version too.
> > > Still no luck.
> > > I noticed these while building bb:
> > > .config:112:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_GUNZIP_UNCOMPRESS
> > > .config:116:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_RPM_BZ2
> > > .config:119:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_TAR_GZIP
> > > .config:120:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2
> > > .config:121:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_TAR_LZMA
> > > .config:122:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_TAR_COMPRESS
> > > .config:138:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_DEB_TAR_GZ
> > > .config:139:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_DEB_TAR_BZ2
> > > .config:140:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
FEATURE_DEB_TAR_LZMA
> > > yes: standard output: Broken pipe
> > >
> > > Seems relevant. I am cross compiling on gentoo.
> > >
> >
> >  could you send your .config, please
>
> Found it. It is FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ that needs to be set in 12.2
>
>  Jocke
>
Really at least add getopt patch or upgrade to 1.12.3 or 1.13.1
Or you will have the bad surprise with 1.12.2 when using gzip -c -d foo.gz
that foo.gz file is suppressed and replaced by foo file.

Gilles