Problem with populatefs

When building image from source PROJECT=WeTek_Play ARCH=arm make image it fails at the end with
image: creating part2...
image: creating filesystem on part1...
image: creating bootloader configuration...
image: installing u-boot bootloader...
image: copying files to part1...
image: copying dtb to part1...
image: extracting part2 from image...
image: creating filesystem on part2...
image: populating filesystem on part2...
image: error happen...

Error: [Filesystem error] /tmp/tmp.JEExJmHhPb/part2.ext4 cannot be opened.

There is some bug when building populatefs (i get a 152k binary) built it on ubuntu I get only 42k binary - replaced the one in toolchain with one built on ubuntu host (outside of LE build environment) and build now completes successfully..

I'm on ubuntu 16.10 64-bit.. I may be wrong but if i recall correctly this used to work fine before, however i now re-built everything..

populatefs builds within toolchain and if i executed it works but fails on command in build script.. these might help it seems like they are different versions and different sizes..

mark@ubuntu:~/src/LibreELEC.tv$ ls -l ./build.LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.0-devel/toolchain/sbin/populatefs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 154264 Dec 30 06:11 ./build.LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.0-devel/toolchain/sbin/populatefs

mark@ubuntu:~/src/LibreELEC.tv$ ./build.LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.0-devel/toolchain/sbin/populatefs -V
populatefs 0.9

mark@ubuntu:~/src/LibreELEC.tv$ ls -l /usr/bin/populatefs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42992 Dec 31 15:28 /usr/bin/populatefs

mark@ubuntu:~/src/LibreELEC.tv$ /usr/bin/populatefs -V
populatefs 1.0
Using EXT2FS Library version 1.43.3

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thanks.