[PATCH 2/3] tar01 and tar02: Do not generate tar archives

[Sebastian Huber]

On 20/11/2019 00:52, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> I am concerned we are loosing some of the checking that we currently have moving
>>> to this approach. The symlink issue is a real one so maybe we hold a single tar
>>> to check that works.
>> With the dynamic generation of the archive we cannot test the file permissions,
>> the group and user IDs, and the time stamps.
> Ah yes this is a good point. Could we have a single tar file that tests those
> parts and others that are generated to test the host and RTEMS code?

At the moment my only concern is the new build system. I have to focus 
to get this integrated since I don't want to reiterate the conversion 
due to changes in the RTEMS sources which may take place in the meantime.

There are some issues with waf and pax. Waf doesn't like directories as 
nodes. You have to use files. If you only feed files into pax, you end 
up with:

$ tar tf build/sparc/erc32/testsuites/libtests/tar01/tar01.tar
home/test_file
home/test_script
symlink

Which leads to:

https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3823

I think we have to fix our tar support first to make any progress here. 
This will delay my build system work and I am currently very busy with 
other things. The question is if we should start integrating it without 
the tests which depend on tar.

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