Old FreeBSD4.11 build.

[Matt McCutchen]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:45 -0400, Jonathan Call wrote: 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-
> > bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Paul Slootman
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:01 PM
> > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: Old FreeBSD4.11 build.
> > 
> > On Tue 21 Sep 2010, Jonathan Call wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to get an old FreeBSD 4.11 server to talk to a newer
> > FreeBSD
> > > 7 server that is running rsync 3.0.4 but I am running into an error
> > with
> > > extended file attributes:
> > 
> > > Ran the following configure line:
> > > ./configure --with-included-popt --disable-iconv
> > > --with-rsyncd-conf=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.conf CFLAGS="-static"
> > > --enable-xattr-support
> > 
> > > lib/sysxattrs.c:85: `EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER' undeclared (first use in
> > 
> > Do you actually need extended attribute support? If not, I'd suggest
> > not
> > using --enable-xattr-support (or in fact do: --disable-xattr-support).
> > I suspect that the xattr support in rsync doesn't handle your old
> > freebsd.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Extended attributes might not be necessary but unfortunately the rsync
> server has it enabled.

There's no requirement that the client and server support the same set
of features, only that the features actually used on a given run are
supported by both client and server.  If you configure the client
without xattr support, it should be able to talk to the server, though
obviously the -X option won't be available.  If it doesn't work, let us
know how it fails.

-- 
Matt