X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/ea7752554632890646f1b8ad6e25329f769c3a9c..c8b823f9d8849a3bcb0ab9ffc85ff02c3d2eb367:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 60e82178..6b10daeb 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -To build and install rsync +To build and install rsync: $ ./configure $ make @@ -9,12 +9,28 @@ to ./configure. To see them, use: $ ./configure --help +Configure tries to figure out if the local system uses group "nobody" or +"nogroup" by looking in the /etc/group file. (This is only used for the +default group of an rsync daemon, which attempts to run with "nobody" +user and group permissions.) You can change the default user and group +for the daemon by editing the NOBODY_USER and NOBODY_GROUP defines in +config.h, or just override them in your /etc/rsyncd.conf file. + 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 +cut-down copy of release 1.6.4 is included in the rsync distribution, +and will be used if 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. + +RPM NOTES +--------- +Under packaging you will find .spec files for several distributions. +The .spec file in packaging/lsb can be used for Linux systems that +adhere to the Linux Standards Base (e.g., RedHat and others). HP-UX NOTES ----------- @@ -27,16 +43,21 @@ fails: 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. +Some versions of Mac OS X (Darwin) seem to have an IPv6 stack, but do +not completely implement the "New Sockets" API. + says that Apple started to support +IPv6 in 10.2 (Jaguar). If your build fails, try again after running +configure with --disable-ipv6. +IBM AIX NOTES +------------- +IBM AIX has a largefile problem with mkstemp. See IBM PR-51921. +The workaround is to append the below to config.h + #ifdef _LARGE_FILES + #undef HAVE_SECURE_MKSTEMP + #endif