From 62e9eb7bc2c593d40951f5099a36442537732a5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:27:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mention need of wildcard support in make. See bug 7625. --- INSTALL | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6b10daeb..ec551cc3 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ 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. @@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ 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 its prerequisite args, +but keep in mind that this will make a manual removal of "proto.h-tstamp" +necessary anytime the function prototypes change. + RPM NOTES --------- -- 2.47.3