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rsync

    1: To build and install rsync:
    2: 
    3:   $ ./configure
    4:   $ make
    5:   # make install
    6: 
    7: You may set the installation directory and other parameters by options
    8: to ./configure.  To see them, use:
    9: 
   10:   $ ./configure --help
   11: 
   12: Configure tries to figure out if the local system uses group "nobody" or
   13: "nogroup" by looking in the /etc/group file.  (This is only used for the
   14: default group of an rsync daemon, which attempts to run with "nobody"
   15: user and group permissions.)  You can change the default user and group
   16: for the daemon by editing the NOBODY_USER and NOBODY_GROUP defines in
   17: config.h, or just override them in your /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
   18: 
   19: As of 2.4.7, rsync uses Eric Troan's popt option-parsing library.  A
   20: cut-down copy of a recent release is included in the rsync distribution,
   21: and will be used if there is no popt library on your build host, or if
   22: the --with-included-popt option is passed to ./configure.
   23: 
   24: If you configure using --enable-maintainer-mode, then rsync will try
   25: to pop up an xterm on DISPLAY=:0 if it crashes.  You might find this
   26: useful, but it should be turned off for production builds.
   27: 
   28: MAKE COMPATIBILITY
   29: ------------------
   30: 
   31: Note that Makefile.in has a rule that uses a wildcard in a prerequisite.  If
   32: your make has a problem with this rule, you will see an error like this:
   33: 
   34:     Don't know how to make ./*.c
   35: 
   36: You can change the "proto.h-tstamp" target in Makefile.in to list all the *.c
   37: filenames explicitly in order to avoid this issue.
   38: 
   39: RPM NOTES
   40: ---------
   41: 
   42: Under packaging you will find .spec files for several distributions.
   43: The .spec file in packaging/lsb can be used for Linux systems that
   44: adhere to the Linux Standards Base (e.g., RedHat and others).
   45: 
   46: HP-UX NOTES
   47: -----------
   48: 
   49: The HP-UX 10.10 "bundled" C compiler seems not to be able to cope with
   50: ANSI C.  You may see this error message in config.log if ./configure
   51: fails:
   52: 
   53:   (Bundled) cc: "configure", line 2162: error 1705: Function prototypes are an ANSI feature.
   54: 
   55: Install gcc or HP's "ANSI/C Compiler".
   56: 
   57: MAC OSX NOTES
   58: -------------
   59: 
   60: Some versions of Mac OS X (Darwin) seem to have an IPv6 stack, but do
   61: not completely implement the "New Sockets" API.  
   62: 
   63: <http://www.ipv6.org/impl/mac.html> says that Apple started to support
   64: IPv6 in 10.2 (Jaguar).  If your build fails, try again after running
   65: configure with --disable-ipv6.
   66: 
   67: IBM AIX NOTES
   68: -------------
   69: 
   70: IBM AIX has a largefile problem with mkstemp.  See IBM PR-51921.
   71: The workaround is to append the below to config.h
   72: 	#ifdef _LARGE_FILES
   73: 	#undef HAVE_SECURE_MKSTEMP
   74: 	#endif