Old FreeBSD4.11 build.

[Jonathan Call]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt McCutchen [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:57 PM
> To: Jonathan Call
> Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: Old FreeBSD4.11 build.
> 
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:45 -0400, Jonathan Call wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-
> > > bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Paul Slootman
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:01 PM
> > > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: Re: Old FreeBSD4.11 build.
> > >
> > > On Tue 21 Sep 2010, Jonathan Call wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to get an old FreeBSD 4.11 server to talk to a newer
> > > FreeBSD
> > > > 7 server that is running rsync 3.0.4 but I am running into an
> error
> > > with
> > > > extended file attributes:
> > >
> > > > Ran the following configure line:
> > > > ./configure --with-included-popt --disable-iconv
> > > > --with-rsyncd-conf=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.conf CFLAGS="-static"
> > > > --enable-xattr-support
> > >
> > > > lib/sysxattrs.c:85: `EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER' undeclared (first
> use in
> > >
> > > Do you actually need extended attribute support? If not, I'd
> suggest
> > > not
> > > using --enable-xattr-support (or in fact do: --disable-xattr-
> support).
> > > I suspect that the xattr support in rsync doesn't handle your old
> > > freebsd.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Extended attributes might not be necessary but unfortunately the
> rsync
> > server has it enabled.
> 
> There's no requirement that the client and server support the same set
> of features, only that the features actually used on a given run are
> supported by both client and server.  If you configure the client
> without xattr support, it should be able to talk to the server, though
> obviously the -X option won't be available.  If it doesn't work, let us
> know how it fails.
> 
> --
> Matt
> 

I noticed that a few days after. I had left the -X (and -A) in the client script. Once I removed that it operated (almost) as expected.  

Jonathan


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