Busybox tar failing to compile on snapshot of uClibc

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 7:52 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:30:06PM -0000, Martyn Welch wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've been trying to compile busybox as part of buildroot.
> >
> >I am using yesterdays snapshots of uClibc and busybox. It seems that
> >tar.c uses "bzero", which seems to be no longer provided in uClibc.
> 
> That's not really correct. If you want the SUSv3 LEGACY stuff, then turn
> it on. See make uclibc-menuconfig
> 
> That said, i fixed tar to not use that legacy crap. See r16850.

In toybox I've got a check if bzero exists, and if not I implement it in the 
library.  I don't know why they deprecate it, bzero() is one less function 
argument for _the_ single most common use of memset().  And I'm not humoring 
them.

You're welcome to kowtow to standards bodies however you want.  Let me know 
when your build environment contains sccs:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sccs.html

Or when you've restricted df -p to use 32 bit integers on 64-bit platforms:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/df.html
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

Rob
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