Issue with tar (Busybox 1.20.2): unknown file type

[walter harms]

Am 24.06.2013 16:30, schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:14:52PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>> normally busybox is build with -Os for size optimisation.
>> Will you give it a try without any -O ?
> 
> -Os should never affect alignment. If it does that's a serious gcc
> bug...
> 

If everything would work as expected ...
I was just thinking about an easy test and disabling any gcc magic
seemed a good starting point

re,
 wh

> Rich
> 
> 
>>
>> re,
>>  wh
>>
>> Am 24.06.2013 16:09, schrieb piquemal michel:
>>> HI Dietmar,
>>>
>>> I did rebuilt the whole uclibc and toolchain with long file support: same result (see below the extended printf of stat structure): it's definitely an alignment issue.
>>> Could that come from some GCC optimization? I've not set any in busybox config. It seems default buildroot toochain build has some GGC optimizations.
>>>
>>> It really seems a related busybox issue (probably something in .config), since other own-applications I compiled work without issues: including those working with stat/lstat (through glob() for instance).
>>>
>>> I could not upload cross-compiled uClibc on target, since if I touch the target's one in /lib (ram mapped), the target won't work anymore, and I can not build/flash a new firmware.
>>>
>>>