[Buildroot] [Bug 7016] Git issues in resulting buildroot tar

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Brian,

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:26 PM, brianclements <brian at brianclements.net> wrote:
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>
>>In the menuconfig, in the toolchain menu, you can specify the toolchain
> type. It is set to 'Buildroot' by >default, but you can specify 'external'
> here. I then used the default proposed toolchain (Sourcery)
>
> So I've found the fix. Selecting the external toolchain "Sourcery" (and WOW
> is it much faster) with my other selections same as before of x86_64 and
> git, was all I needed to get git to work. So I know what I need to do now to
> get it to work for my uses. But I'm sure that still means there is a bug
> somewhere in the buildroot toolchain. I'm not sure how to go about finding
> it for you, but I'd be more then happy to test and reproduce things along
> the way for you if you desire. Let me know,

Could you send me the buildroot config you were using before?
I will build the exact same config this time and see if I can reproduce on qemu.

Best regards,
Thomas