I compiled rsync with the following flags: [13:13:02 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/data/vmware/Virtual Machines] $ emerge -vpt rsync These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.7 USE="acl xinetd -build -ipv6 -static" 0 kB But when I try to use ACLs, I get: [13:12:59 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/data/vmware/Virtual Machines] $ rsync --acls rsync: ACLs are not supported on this client rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1231) [client] During compilation I saw: >>> Unpacking rsync-2.6.7.tar.gz to /Gentoo/portage/tmp/portage/rsync-2.6.7/work * Applying acls.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying xattrs.diff ... [ ok ] make: Fr das Ziel gen ist nichts zu tun. >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /Gentoo/portage/tmp/portage/rsync-2.6.7/work/rsync-2.6.7 ... * econf: updating rsync-2.6.7/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating rsync-2.6.7/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --without-included-popt --with-acl-support --with-xattr-support --disable-ipv6 --with-rsyncd-conf=/etc/rsyncd.conf --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: Configuring rsync 2.6.7 [...] checking whether -c -o works... yes checking sys/acl.h usability... yes checking sys/acl.h presence... yes checking for sys/acl.h... yes checking for _acl... no checking for __acl... no checking for _facl... no checking for __facl... no checking whether to support ACLs... no Why don't I have support for ACLs? [13:20:13 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/data/vmware/Virtual Machines] $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre7-r4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.15-gentoo-r3.05 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3.05 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/Gentoo/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://localhost/~vz6tml/gentoo-files http://dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net/~vz6tml/gentoo-files http://localhost/gentoo-files/ http://dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net/gentoo-files/ http://localhost/~vz6tml/gentoo-files/ http://cifs-srvr1.europe.delphiauto.net/~vz6tml/Misc._Software/Gentoo/ http://alexander.skwar.name/~askwar/stuff/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de:80/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://localhost:60081/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://localhost:60080/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://localhost:60082/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://localhost:60083/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://localhost:60084/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ " LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j11" PKGDIR="/Gentoo/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Gentoo/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/Gentoo/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/portage/local-tree/misc" SYNC="rsync://localhost:10873/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 7zip GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acl apache apache2 artworkextra async avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts ccache ck-server crypt css cups dbus dri dvd encode exif fat firefox font-server foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gmail gmailtimestamps gnome gpm gs gtk gtk2 hal hfs hpn i8x0 iconv id3 imagemagick imlib imlib2 isdnlog java javascript jfs jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lame libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls lm_sensors lynxkeymap lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mailbox maildir matroska mmx motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpm-worker msdav mysql mysqli ncurses network nfs nis nls no-old-linux no-suexec nodrm nomusic nptl nptlonly ntlm offensive ogg oggvorbis pam pcre pdflib perl php png posix postfix pppd python qt quicktime rar rdesktop readline real recode reiserfs samba sapdb screen sdl sendfile sftp smp sockets spell sse sse2 ssl stream subtitles symlink sysvipc tcpd tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 vim vim-pager vim-with-x vorbis webdav win32codecs xattr xfs xinetd xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid yp zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_vmmouse input_devices_void kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_vmware" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
because they changed the option from '--with-acl-support' to '--enable-acl-support' starting in 2.6.7 but the ebuild wasnt updated fixed in cvs
