[Leaf-devel] Re: [BusyBox] gzip broken in 0.60.3 ?

[Scott M. <sc...@so...>]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Jacques Nilo wrote:

> Hi
> I just compiled bbox 0.60.3. under my Debian/slink machine to give it a try in
> my "Bering" LEAF floppy based router.
> The good news is that the size ob bbox shrinks from 153800 to 140348 bytes for
> the same features.

It's about 5K bigger with the same configuration for our StrongARM based
system.

> The bad news is that gzip seems to be broken
> from the busybox-0.60.3 directory I typed:
> ./busybox tar -c docs | ./busybox gzip > docs.tgz
> Broken pipe
> If I replace gzip.c by the code in 0.60.2 everything seems to work fine.
> I have not tried that on a 2.1 or 2.2 based machine.

It looks like you now need to specify either the "-c" option or use "-" as
a filename to have gzip write to stdout.

> Also halt/reboot do not work for me (they did not work in 0.60.2 either)

Are you using BusyBox's init?  That still seems to be a requirement to get
halt/poweroff/reboot to work as expected.

Scott


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