| To build and install rsync: |
| |
| $ ./configure |
| $ make |
| # make install |
| |
| You may set the installation directory and other parameters by options |
| to ./configure. To see them, use: |
| |
| $ ./configure --help |
| |
| Configure tries to figure out if the local system uses group "nobody" or |
| "nogroup" by looking in the /etc/group file. (This is only used for the |
| default group of an rsync daemon, which attempts to run with "nobody" |
| user and group permissions.) You can change the default user and group |
| for the daemon by editing the NOBODY_USER and NOBODY_GROUP defines in |
| config.h, or just override them in your /etc/rsyncd.conf file. |
| |
| As of 2.4.7, rsync uses Eric Troan's popt option-parsing library. A |
| cut-down copy of release 1.6.4 is included in the rsync distribution, |
| and will be used if there is no popt library on your build host, or if |
| the --with-included-popt option is passed to ./configure. |
| |
| If you configure using --enable-maintainer-mode, then rsync will try |
| to pop up an xterm on DISPLAY=:0 if it crashes. You might find this |
| useful, but it should be turned off for production builds. |
| |
| RPM NOTES |
| --------- |
| |
| Under packaging you will find .spec files for several distributions. |
| The .spec file in packaging/lsb can be used for Linux systems that |
| adhere to the Linux Standards Base (e.g., RedHat and others). |
| |
| HP-UX NOTES |
| ----------- |
| |
| The HP-UX 10.10 "bundled" C compiler seems not to be able to cope with |
| ANSI C. You may see this error message in config.log if ./configure |
| fails: |
| |
| (Bundled) cc: "configure", line 2162: error 1705: Function prototypes are an ANSI feature. |
| |
| Install gcc or HP's "ANSI/C Compiler". |
| |
| MAC OSX NOTES |
| ------------- |
| |
| Some versions of Mac OS X (Darwin) seem to have an IPv6 stack, but do |
| not completely implement the "New Sockets" API. |
| |
| <http://www.ipv6.org/impl/mac.html> says that Apple started to support |
| IPv6 in 10.2 (Jaguar). If your build fails, try again after running |
| configure with --disable-ipv6. |
| |
| IBM AIX NOTES |
| ------------- |
| |
| IBM AIX has a largefile problem with mkstemp. See IBM PR-51921. |
| The workaround is to append the below to config.h |
| #ifdef _LARGE_FILES |
| #undef HAVE_SECURE_MKSTEMP |
| #endif |