static compile of rsync

[Lasse Kliemann]

* Message by -Paul Slootman- from Tue 2008-03-18:
 
> Be aware that at least when using glibc, a number of things are always
> dynamic, e.g the nsswitch stuff (for host lookups etc.)
> If the targets are linux systems, then the safest way is to build
> appropriate packages...

rsync can be linked statically against the dietlibc on Linux.

The following procedure works:

CC="diet gcc -nostdinc"
export CC
./configure --disable-locale
echo '#define HAVE_STRUCT_ADDRINFO 1' >> config.h
make

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