m2005 untar error on msys2 (tar01 directory)

[Sebastian Huber]

On 05/05/2020 09:25, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> Oh OK, maybe keep it? Could you patch the RSB and see if it works? 
>> I removed the GDB from the build set.
>
> I am pretty sure it would work with a patched windows.py.
Which patch?
>
>> It is currently busy building the 5/rtems-sparc build set (without 
>> GDB) in a mingw64 shell. Is a build in the msys shell something 
>> useful/supported? 
>
> Yes, we have valid users. Plus building on Windows is valid for the 
> same reasons we build from source on all hosts maybe more so. 

If I install msys/mingw I get an msys, mingw32 and mingw64 shell. They 
are all somewhat different. Are all of them supposed to be supported?

There is also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux