Problem with 3.0.6 and fileflags

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Oct 17 11:19:26 MDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:24:57PM -0400, Roger Bailey wrote:
> I am having trouble compiling rsync 3.0.6 on Red hat Linux EL 5.3.
> [...]
> I am puzzled by the last entry, no file-flags.

That file-flags support is for BSD, so configure determines that it
isn't available for Linux.  Linux has something similar (controlled by
chattr), but support for that hasn't been integrated into the patch.  I
took a look at it once, and ran into some complications, and didn't
finish it.

..wayne..


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