[uClibc]compile tar against uClibc

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Mar 7 14:32:29 UTC 2003


On Fri Mar 07, 2003 at 03:04:45PM +0100, Daliang Wen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A newbie's question: How to compile tar from its source code against
> uClibc?

http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/make/tar.mk?rev=1.4&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

> I've also downloaded uClibc's rootfs program and there is GNU tar
> program so I guess it can be done although it is get annoy :-) I'd like
> to build tar program against my version of uClibc (0.9.18) so I don't
> have to rebuild everything on the initrd against the new version of
> uClibc.

uClibc 0.9.18 and .19 are binary compatible.  So you should be
able to simply copy the version of tar from the latest uClibc
rootfs and it should just work,

 -Erik

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