To build and install rsync

$ ./configure

$ make

# make install

You may set the installation directory and other parameters by options

to ./configure. To see them, use:

$ ./configure --help

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 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

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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

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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

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Mac OS X (Darwin) seems to have an IPv6 stack, but it does not

completely implement the "New Sockets" API.

<http://www.ipv6.org/impl/mac.html> says that Apple do not support

IPv6 yet. If your build fails, try again with --disable-ipv6.

There is an unresolved problem with the OSX implimentation

of setgroups causing rsyncd to fail. The workaround is to

#undef HAVE_SETGROUPS in config.h

IBM AIX NOTES

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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