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Mention need of wildcard support in make.
See bug 7625.
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@@ -17,14 +17,26 @@ for the daemon by editing the NOBODY_USER and NOBODY_GROUP defines in
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config.h, or just override them in your /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
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As of 2.4.7, rsync uses Eric Troan's popt option-parsing library. A
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cut-down copy of release 1.6.4 is included in the rsync distribution,
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cut-down copy of a recent release is included in the rsync distribution,
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and will be used if there is no popt library on your build host, or if
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the --with-included-popt option is passed to ./configure.
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If you configure using --enable-maintainer-mode, then rsync will try
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to pop up an xterm on DISPLAY=:0 if it crashes. You might find this
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useful, but it should be turned off for production builds.
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MAKE COMPATIBILITY
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Note that Makefile.in has a rule that uses a wildcard in a prerequisite. If
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your make has a problem with this rule, you will see an error like this:
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Don't know how to make ./*.c
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You can change the "proto.h-tstamp" target to omit the "$(srcdir)/*.c"
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source, but keep in mind that this will make a manual run of "make proto"
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necessary (prior to a "make") anytime the function prototypes change.
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RPM NOTES
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