rsync-3.0.2 -- two build problems

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi,

when I tried to build rsync-3.0.2 on i686-linux/gnu, I noticed 2 problems:

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(1) With the Linux kernel >=2.6.20, "make check" occasionally fails, due to
subsecond timestamps sometimes being truncated and sometimes being rounded
upwards (both on i686 and x86_64).

Attached are two files demonstrating the problem: rsync-3.0.2-check-out with
the relevant output from "make check", and rsync-3.0.2-check-ls-full-time
with the output from
 	ls -l --full-time `find exclude -name file4.junk`
(in the testtmp directory, coreutils-6.9).

This same problem occured already for 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 as well as when
rebuilding 2.6.9 with the newer Linux kernel.

All this somehow defeats the purpose of a test suite, and it would be
extremely nice if such discrepancies could be avoided.

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(2) I first run
 	../rsync-3.0.2/configure ; make
then
 	make check
and finally (as root)
 	make install

For rsync-3.0.2, "make check" recompiles everything (not just the special
tools not needed otherwise), and "make install" again compiles everything.

The later is really bad, because root may not have write access to the build
directory (e.g., on a root-squashed nfs filesystem).

This problem was not present for rsync-3.0.1 or earlier.

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It would be really great if both problem could be fixed for 3.0.3.

please reply directly to me, since I am not subscribed to this list.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>
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check how the directory listings compare with diff:

--- /.th/thsrc/archive/rsync/rsync-3.0.2-build-linux-gnu/testtmp/exclude/ls-from	2008-06-02 18:48:09.000000000 +0200
+++ /.th/thsrc/archive/rsync/rsync-3.0.2-build-linux-gnu/testtmp/exclude/ls-to	2008-06-02 18:48:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 -rw-r--r--            9   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./bar/down/to/foo/.filt2
 -rw-r--r--            7   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./bar/down/to/foo/file1
 -rw-r--r--            5   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./bar/down/to/foo/file4
--rw-r--r--           18   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:08 ./bar/down/to/foo/file4.junk
+-rw-r--r--           18   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./bar/down/to/foo/file4.junk
 l---------            0      0.0           1                     ./bar/down/to/foo/sym -> too
--rw-r--r--            8   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:08 ./bar/down/to/foo/to
+-rw-r--r--            8   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./bar/down/to/foo/to
 drwxr-xr-x            0   9000.9000        2 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./bar/down/to/foo/too
 drwxr-xr-x            0   9000.9000        3 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./foo
 -rw-r--r--           23   9000.9000        1 2008-06-02 16:48:07 ./foo/.filt
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check how the files compare with diff:

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----- exclude log ends
FAIL    exclude
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-rw-r--r-- 1 peb THEORY 18 2008-06-02 18:48:08.000000000 +0200 exclude/chk/bar/down/to/foo/file4.junk
-rw-r--r-- 1 peb THEORY 18 2008-06-02 18:48:07.880843508 +0200 exclude/from/bar/down/to/foo/file4.junk
-rw-r--r-- 1 peb THEORY 18 2008-06-02 18:48:07.000000000 +0200 exclude/to/bar/down/to/foo/file4.junk