[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] core infra: make sure apply-patches is called with correct tar

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Wed,  1 Feb 2017 12:27:08 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
> 
> Buildroot has a mechanism to detect a too-old or missing tar program on the
> host machine, and builds a custom host-tar if needed. An example situation
> is a RHEL5 host machine, where tar is knowingly too old.
> 
> The apply-patches script also employs tar, in case the patches come as an
> archive. However, tar is called as 'tar' without any absolute path, and the
> environment does not point in any way to the possibly custom tar. As a
> result, the too-old-tar is called. A particular problem is the flag '-a'
> which is missing on e.g. RHEL5.
> 
> Previously, this problem went unnoticed: tar would fail, but apply-patches
> did not notice it, and the overall return code of the script was 'success'.
> However, commit d5ae67b4 added 'set -e' to the script, causing any error to
> halt execution of the script with an error.
> 
> Fix the problem by adding the Buildroot-built host tools to the PATH when
> calling apply-patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
> ---
>  package/Makefile.in | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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