rsync - Jul 2009 - Problem with 3.0.6 and fileflags

Good day,

I am having trouble compiling rsync 3.0.6 on Red hat Linux EL 5.3.

I have downloaded 3.0.6, and the patches for 3.0.6.  I then do the
following:

    $ patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
    $ ./prepare-source
    $ ./configure ?disable-acl-support
    $ make

When I run ./rsync, the following is returned:

Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, no ACLs, xattrs, iconv, no symtimes, no file-flags

I am puzzled by the last entry, no file-flags.  I thought that this patch
would apply the file-flags option, but it does not.  If I try to connect to
rsync with the --fileflags option, it returns the --fileflags: unknown
option.  What do I need to do to get this to compile correctly on Linux?

Thanks!
-- 
Roger Bailey 
Creative Technology
Channing Bete Company
One Community Place
South Deerfield, MA 01373
(413) 665-5660 


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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:24:57PM -0400, Roger Bailey
wrote:
> I am having trouble compiling rsync 3.0.6 on Red hat Linux EL 5.3.
> [...]
> I am puzzled by the last entry, no file-flags.
That file-flags support is for BSD, so configure determines that it
isn't available for Linux.  Linux has something similar (controlled by
chattr), but support for that hasn't been integrated into the patch.  I
took a look at it once, and ran into some complications, and didn't
finish it.

..wayne..