Current svn: tar -xvf works, tar xvf doesn't. bbox 1.2.1 was okay.

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 1:40 pm, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> # busybox tar xvf t.tar t/1/10
> t/1/10
> 
> # ./busybox tar xvf t.tar t/1/10
> BusyBox v1.2.0 (2006.09.02-01:47+0000) multi-call binary
> 
> Usage: tar -[czjaZxtvO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)] ...
> 
> Create, extract, or list files from a tar file.
> 
> # ./busybox tar -xvf t.tar t/1/10
> t/1/10
> 
> Neither tar.c nor ulflags.c looks suspect. Any ideas?

Did you build them against the same C library?  I remember uClibc really 
doesn't like the "xvf" syntax without the dash.  It's a bug in their 
getopt().

Rob
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