tar cannot extract Qt 5.6 source tarball correctly: `configure.exe` is missing

[CyanoHao]

Description / Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Download Qt 5.6 source tarball.

   wget https://download.qt.io/new_archive/qt/5.6/5.6.3/submodules/qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3.tar.xz

2. Extract Qt source.

   tar xvf qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3.tar.xz | grep configure.exe

   Output: qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3/configure.exe.

3. Check configure.exe.

   ls qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3/configure.exe

Expected behavior

configure.exe exists.

Actual behavior

configure.exe does not exist.

Verification

• [X] I have verified that my MSYS2 is up-to-date before submitting the report (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/updating/)

Windows Version

MINGW64_NT-10.0-19044

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No response

[Biswa96]

The issue can not be reproduced. Here is the output in my case.

$ tar xvf qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3.tar.xz | grep configure.exe
qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3/configure.exe

[CyanoHao]

The issue can not be reproduced. Here is the output in my case.

$ tar xvf qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3.tar.xz | grep configure.exe
qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3/configure.exe

This file apprears in verbose log of tar, but does not exist after extraction.

ls qtbase-opensource-src-5.6.3/configure.exe:

Windows Explorer:

[Biswa96]

Understood. I can reproduce the issue with tar. It seems that the configure.exe file is overwritten with configure shell script. If I use bsdtar the issue does not happen.

[sskras]

@Biswa96 commented:

If I use bsdtar the issue does not happen.

What specific version of bsdtar do you run? Mine is bsdtar 3.7.2, and the issue is present here:

Maybe some MSYS2 configuration is in play?

[sskras]

PS. (Just in case) Midipix doesn't have the issue:

[Biswa96]

What specific version of bsdtar do you run?

Try with the mingw/ucrt/clang one.