questions about extended attributes support across *nix & osx (hfs+) filesys

[snowcrash]

hi,

the 'osx magic', per your suggestion, was apparently to:

	patch -p1 <patches/acls.diff
	patch -p1 <patches/xattrs.diff

but,

	./configue \
	...
	--disable-acl-support \    <-- DISABLED!
	--enable-xattr-support \
	...


which, then, results -- error-free! -- in,

	...
	checking whether to support extended attributes... Using OS X xattrs
	...
	rsync 2.6.9 configuration successful


then,

	make
	make install
	rsync --version

reports
	
  rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
  Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
              batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, no ACLs, xattrs,
              32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

great!

for curiosity, i also dl'd CVS, and tried same.

after

	./configure ...

then, on osx,

	make

fails with,

	gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -I./popt
-I/usr/local/include -c rsync.c -o rsync.o
	rsync.c:106: error: conflicting types for 'dest_mode'
	proto.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'dest_mode' was here
	rsync.c:131: error: conflicting types for 'set_file_attrs'
	proto.h:229: error: previous declaration of 'set_file_attrs' was here
	rsync.c: In function 'set_file_attrs':
	rsync.c:159: warning: implicit declaration of function 'get_acl'
	rsync.c:223: warning: implicit declaration of function 'set_xattr'
	rsync.c:233: warning: implicit declaration of function 'set_acl'
	rsync.c:260: warning: implicit declaration of function 'free_acl'
	make: *** [rsync.o] Error 1

so, for now, 'back' to 2.6.9, & to learn/understand which xattrs
rsync's native support does/doesn't handle the same as v2.6.3 w/
apple's patches.

thanks much for the help! :-)