Compile 2.5.2 on RedHat 6.2

[Scott Russell]

For what it's worth I saw the same error. 2.5.1 worked fine however. 
I never found a solution.

-- Scott

In mailinglists.external.rsync, you wrote:
> I am running RedHat 6.2 on many of my servers and am receiving the following 
> errors when compiling Rsync 2.5.2:
> 
> [root at wrapguy rsync-2.5.2]# make
> gcc -I. -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -c rsync.c -o rsync.o
> In file included from rsync.c:23:
> rsync.h:339: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> rsync.h:339: parse error before `inode'
> rsync.h:341: parse error before `dev'
> rsync.h:341: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `dev'
> rsync.h:341: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> rsync.h:344: parse error before `rdev'
> rsync.h:344: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `rdev'
> rsync.h:344: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> rsync.h:347: `basename' redeclared as different kind of symbol
> /usr/include/string.h:317: previous declaration of `basename'
> rsync.h:350: `link' redeclared as different kind of symbol
> /usr/include/unistd.h:678: previous declaration of `link'
> rsync.h:352: parse error before `}'
> rsync.h: In function `flist_up':
> rsync.h:420: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c: In function `set_perms':
> rsync.c:165: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:168: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:178: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:179: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:179: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:184: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:188: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:189: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:206: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:208: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rsync.c:152: warning: `change_uid' might be used uninitialized in this 
> function
> rsync.c:152: warning: `change_gid' might be used uninitialized in this 
> function
> rsync.c: In function `finish_transfer':
> rsync.c:245: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> make: *** [rsync.o] Error 1
> 

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