X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/26c08b6c2183b2b22b7dbdd2dad3814bf0c07cb1..b35d0d8e9ae9c5407c9f781b545f8a66b9caa9d0:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 099ab2bb..45f8ba69 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -13,3 +13,33 @@ As of 2.4.7, rsync uses Eric Troan's popt option-parsing library. A cut-down copy of release 1.5 is included in the rsync distribution, and will be used it there is no popt library on your build host, or if the --with-included-popt option is passed to ./configure. + +If you configure using --enable-maintainer-mode, then rsync will try +to pop up an xterm on DISPLAY=:0 if it crashes. You might find this +useful, but it should be turned off for production builds. + + +HP-UX NOTES +----------- + +The HP-UX 10.10 "bundled" C compiler seems not to be able to cope with +ANSI C. You may see this error message in config.log if ./configure +fails: + + (Bundled) cc: "configure", line 2162: error 1705: Function prototypes are an ANSI feature. + +Install gcc or HP's "ANSI/C Compiler". + + + +MAC OSX NOTES +------------- + +Mac OS X (Darwin) seems to have an IPv6 stack, but it does not +completely implement the "New Sockets" API. + + says that Apple do not support +IPv6 yet. If your build fails, try again with --disable-ipv6. + + +