Making rsync compile under Mac OS X 10.3.9 with extended attributes

[Vitorio Machado]

I've looked at the source of rsync-2.5.5.hfs and unfortunately it  
isn't patched the same way. If you are curious about it, just look at  
the syscall.c in rsync-2.5.5, in particular code between #ifdef  
DARWIN and #endif /* DARWIN */
I can't understand very well the code, but it seems to copy the  
ressources fork with system calls to cp command. So I think the best  
way of patching is doing what Matt said (using getattrlist instead of  
getxattr in 10.3).

For the way of recognizing the OS (pseudo-coded as mac < 10.4), ./ 
configure gives target as powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 for 10.3.9,  
powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0 for 10.4.11. darwinA.B.C represents Mac OS  
X 10.(A-4).B, so I think here is our way to create a flag like  
mac_bellow_tiger. But I don't know how to put this flag in the  
configure script, especially because it seems to be automatically  
generated, so would be better to patch the source than the result. Do  
someone knows how to do that?

So my documentation phase is ended, I will concentrate my efforts now  
on coding something following Matt's example.

Best regards,

Vitorio