Do you like rsync 2.5.5?
Albert Chin
rsync at lists.thewrittenword.com
Wed Apr 3 16:13:54 EST 2002
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:57:32PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2002, Albert Chin <rsync at lists.thewrittenword.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:14:50AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > > Are there any other patches you think really need to go into a 2.5.6
> > > before we proceed?
> >
> > The attached patch is important for "out of the box" compilation on
> > Tru64 UNIX. The FreeBSD issue has been resolved.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> Zoong Pham also posted a patch for Tru64 that does this, and also a
> few other things. (This is patches/rsync_zoong_tru64.diff)
>
> - Apparently work around mknod's inability to create pipes or
> sockets. Is that necessary? (i.e. does 2.5.5 not copy fifos on
> Tru64?)
Dunno. Haven't tested.
> - Define EAI_ values not defined by the system headers. After
> seeing the mess in the RH5.2 header files I can sympathize, but
> adding them in by hand will is just not going to work. Is there
> something else we can do to get the system headers to either
> provide all the values or none?
>
> At the least we need to test for each value that may be missing it
> and provide it only if so.
With only the patch I posted, builds fine on Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.0A,
5.1. I think Zoong Pham has 5.1A which we don't have so cannot test.
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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)
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