[Ltib] tar with gzip in busybox

[Marten Lootsma]

Dear list members,

I am upgrading a LTIB version given by Freescale (mx35 SDK1_5 to SDK1_7). This question might be misplaced on this list, but I have a problem with tar in Busybox (1.15). The tar option 'z' for gzip support is not recognized:

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address@hidden /mnt/appl/bin$ tar xzvf mb.tar.gz 
tar: invalid option -- z
BusyBox v1.15.0 () multi-call binary

Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...

Create, extract, or list files from a tar file

Options:
    c    Create
    x    Extract
    t    List
Archive format selection:
File selection:
    f    Name of TARFILE or "-" for stdin
    O    Extract to stdout
    C    Change to directory DIR before operation
    v    Verbose

address@hidden /mnt/appl/bin$ tar xvf mb.tar.gz  
tar: invalid tar magic
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Note that gunzip is working. I searched in the busybox config, but I could a way to add gzip support to tar.

Does someone has a suggestion?

Thanks,
Marten