2.5.2 will not compile

[Richard Ureña]

Trying to compile rsync 2.5.2 after "./configure  --prefix=/usr"
I get the following make errors:

   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

Some info about the build environment:

uname -sr
	 Linux 2.2.20

gcc --version
	 egcs-2.91.66

ls -d /lib/libc*
	 /lib/libc-2.1.2.so
	 /lib/libc.so.6
	 /lib/libcrypt.so.1

make --version
	 GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.

Output of "configure" appended below.

I'd like to be able to upgrade to the new version due to the
security concerns.    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Richard

(output of "./configure --prefix=/usr 2>&1")

   configure: Configuring rsync 2.5.2
   checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
   checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
   checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
   checking for gcc... gcc
   checking for C compiler default output... a.out
   checking whether the C compiler works... yes
   checking whether we are cross compiling... no
   checking for executable suffix... 
   checking for object suffix... o
   checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
   checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
   checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
   checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
   checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
   checking whether to include debugging symbols... yes
   checking for remsh... 0
   checking for broken largefile support... yes
   checking ipv6 stack type... linux-glibc
   checking for library containing getaddrinfo... none required
   checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
   checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
   checking for opendir in -ldir... no
   checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
   checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
   checking for sys/fcntl.h... yes
   checking for sys/select.h... yes
   checking for fcntl.h... yes
   checking for sys/time.h... yes
   checking for sys/unistd.h... yes
   checking for unistd.h... yes
   checking for utime.h... yes
   checking for grp.h... yes
   checking for compat.h... no
   checking for sys/param.h... yes
   checking for ctype.h... yes
   checking for sys/wait.h... (cached) yes
   checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
   checking for sys/filio.h... no
   checking for string.h... yes
   checking for stdlib.h... yes
   checking for sys/socket.h... yes
   checking for sys/mode.h... no
   checking for glob.h... yes
   checking for alloca.h... yes
   checking for mcheck.h... yes
   checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes
   checking for arpa/inet.h... yes
   checking for arpa/nameser.h... yes
   checking for netdb.h... yes
   checking for malloc.h... yes
   checking for ANSI C header files... yes
   checking for sys/types.h... yes
   checking for sys/stat.h... yes
   checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
   checking for string.h... (cached) yes
   checking for memory.h... yes
   checking for strings.h... yes
   checking for inttypes.h... yes
   checking for stdint.h... yes
   checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
   checking for int... yes
   checking size of int... 4
   checking for long... yes
   checking size of long... 4
   checking for short... yes
   checking size of short... 2
   checking for inline... inline
   checking return type of signal handlers... void
   checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
   checking for mode_t... yes
   checking for off_t... yes
   checking for size_t... yes
   checking for pid_t... yes
   checking type of array argument to getgroups... gid_t
   checking for struct stat.st_rdev... yes
   checking for ino_t... yes
   checking for socklen_t... yes
   checking for errno in errno.h... yes
   checking for connect... yes
   checking for inet_ntop in -lresolv... yes
   checking for inet_ntop... yes
   checking for inet_pton... yes
   checking for getaddrinfo... yes
   checking for getnameinfo... yes
   checking for struct sockaddr.sa_len... no
   checking struct sockaddr_storage... yes
   checking for strcasecmp... yes
   checking whether utime accepts a null argument... yes
   checking for waitpid... yes
   checking for wait4... yes
   checking for getcwd... yes
   checking for strdup... yes
   checking for strerror... yes
   checking for chown... yes
   checking for chmod... yes
   checking for mknod... yes
   checking for fchmod... yes
   checking for fstat... yes
   checking for strchr... yes
   checking for readlink... yes
   checking for link... yes
   checking for utime... yes
   checking for utimes... yes
   checking for strftime... yes
   checking for memmove... yes
   checking for lchown... yes
   checking for vsnprintf... yes
   checking for snprintf... yes
   checking for asprintf... yes
   checking for setsid... yes
   checking for glob... yes
   checking for strpbrk... yes
   checking for strlcat... no
   checking for strlcpy... no
   checking for mtrace... yes
   checking for mallinfo... yes
   checking for working socketpair... yes
   checking for working fnmatch... yes
   checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... yes
   checking whether to use included libpopt... no
   checking for long long... yes
   checking for off64_t... yes
   checking for short ino_t... no
   checking for unsigned char... no
   checking for broken readdir... no
   checking for utimbuf... yes
   checking if gettimeofday takes tz argument... yes
   checking for C99 vsnprintf... yes
   checking for secure mkstemp... yes
   checking for broken inet_ntoa... no
   checking for broken inet_aton... no
   checking whether -c -o works... yes
   configure: creating ./config.status
   config.status: creating Makefile
   config.status: creating lib/dummy
   config.status: creating zlib/dummy
   config.status: creating popt/dummy
   config.status: creating shconfig
   config.status: creating config.h
   
       rsync 2.5.2 configuration successful