rsync 2.5.6 fails on Tru64 v5.0 with rsync://<hostname>/

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:24:26AM +0100, Laurent CREPET wrote:
> I've just compiled 2.5.6 release on Tru64 V5.0A (configure detects
> alphaev67-dec-osf5.0, gcc release is a 3.1.1).
> 
> rsync fails using rsync://<hostname>/ syntax.
> 
> > lct at goliath(32) [rsync-2.5.6]$ ./rsync rsync://stitch/
> > rsync: getaddrinfo: stitch 873: servname not supported for ai_socktype
> > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)
> 
> Is there anyone else that has the same problem ?

Try recompiling without getaddrinfo support:
  ac_cv_search_getaddrinfo=no ./configure ...

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)