Mention need of wildcard support in make.

See bug 7625.
RsyncProject · Aug 26, 2010 · c9bf436 · c9bf436
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@@ -17,14 +17,26 @@ 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 1.6.4 is included in the rsync distribution,
+cut-down copy of a recent release 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.
 
+MAKE COMPATIBILITY
+------------------
+
+Note that Makefile.in has a rule that uses a wildcard in a prerequisite.  If
+your make has a problem with this rule, you will see an error like this:
+
+    Don't know how to make ./*.c
+
+You can change the "proto.h-tstamp" target to omit the "$(srcdir)/*.c"
+source, but keep in mind that this will make a manual run of "make proto"
+necessary (prior to a "make") anytime the function prototypes change.
+
 RPM NOTES
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