The fact "tar tvjf thing.tbz" didn't work was due to the "-1" in -r11859, which was apparently never tested. That meant that there always had to be at least one unparsed argument left over, which is not the case for tar.
This commit was genuinely broken at the time (not related to our build system): scripts/config/mkconfigs.c (2005-08-01 - 2006-10-05 arasi) uretilen bbconfigopts.h icine .config satirlarini kacissiz, ham newline'larla gömüyordu - gecerli C degildi, busybox'un kendi bb_mkdep araci bile parse edemiyordu (7d219aab7 ile duzeltildi, mkconfigs shell scripte cevrildi)
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| @@ -688,8 +688,8 @@ int tar_main(int argc, char **argv) | |
| /* Prepend '-' to the first argument if required */ | |
| bb_opt_complementally = ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE ? | |
| - | "--:-1:X::T::\n::c:t:x:?:c--tx:t--cx:x--ct" : |
| - | "--:-1:X::T::\n::t:x:?:t--x:x--t"; |
| + | "--:X::T::\n::c:t:x:?:c--tx:t--cx:x--ct" : |
| + | "--:X::T::\n::t:x:?:t--x:x--t"; |
| if (ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS) | |
| bb_applet_long_options = tar_long_options; | |
| opt = bb_getopt_ulflags(argc, argv, tar_options, | |