[PATCH] hexdump: fix regression with -n4 -e '"%u"'

[Natanael Copa]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:06:11 +0100
Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Natanael Copa wrote in
>  <20241028142621.157769-1-ncopa at alpinelinux.org>:
>  |Fix bug introduced in busybox 1.37.0 that broke kernel builds.
>  |
>  |Fixes commit e2287f99fe6f (od: for !DESKTOP, match output more closely
>  |to GNU coreutils 9.1, implement -s)
> 
> ok, but, for whatever reason and whats it worth, i *really* have
> that busybox.static from April 20th which shows the same error
> that you had posted on the AlpineLinux list.  It may be i mv(1)d
> over it, but i do not fiddle with file times and stat(1) says
> 
>   Access: 2024-10-28 15:33:22.617028884 +0100
>   Modify: 2024-04-20 23:30:27.306450375 +0200
>   Change: 2024-04-20 23:30:27.306450375 +0200
>    Birth: 2021-07-15 17:15:04.220127694 +0200
> 
> so i do not think that i did that.

You mean this?

>   $ busybox.static | sed '2,$d'
>   BusyBox v1.37.0.git (2024-04-20 23:25:28 CEST) multi-call binary

I don't know how or where you got that binary from, but I belive the
issue was introduced in 1.37.0.

-nc