rsync-3.0.0pre6 configure painness

[Paul Slootman]

On Sat 01 Dec 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> what's the deal with configure.sh ?  if i take the rsync-3.0.0pre6 tarball, 
> unpack it, and run `./configure && make`, the make process bombs because of 
> configure.sh.  it looks like the rsync code is trying to use "configure.sh" 
> as its output instead of the standard "configure" ?
> -mike

Please take a moment to read the other messages in the list...
Here's one from Wednesday:

On Wed 28 Nov 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:03:48PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > configure.in is 14 seconds younger than configure.sh, and 13 seconds
> > younger than config.h.in.  Was it touched somehow?

> Yeah, that was a mistake in the new release script that works with git.
> Thanks for the note -- I've made some changes that should fix this for
> the next release.

> As for this release, run "touch configure.sh config.h.in" (or run
> ./prepare-source) prior to the start of the normal configure and make
> sequence.
> 
> ..wayne..


Paul Slootman