Do you like rsync 2.5.5?

[Albert Chin]

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)