RE: Rsyncrypto using wrong gzip ?

[Jan A. <jan...@do...>]

Shachar,

Have you ever considered to support rsyncrypto in cygwin ? With cygwin you
can support the windows platform, without struggling with Microsoft Visual
Studio and all its features.

I tried compiling rsyncrypto in Cygwin, but without success... The configure
ends successfully, but the make command fails.

Regards,

Jan

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:sh...@sh...] 
Verzonden: zaterdag 17 mei 2008 7:37
Aan: Jan Alphenaar
CC: 'L-rsyncrypto'
Onderwerp: Re: Rsyncrypto using wrong gzip ?

Jan Alphenaar wrote:
> Oke, that is a clear answer, thanks for that.
>
> One last question on this subject. Are you going to try to build a
> statically compiled package in one of the next versions ?
Unlikely
>  Or are you leaving
> it like it is now ?
>   

The code that crashes when stderr is passed between rsyncrypto and 
argtable has to do with thread locking. Theoretically, if we switched 
both rsyncrypto and argtable to the single threaded versions we could 
make do with statically linking both of them. In practice, there are 
several problems with that:
1. I'm not sure that will actually solve the problem
2. Even if it will, the direction we are trying to go is to make 
rsyncrypto more multi threaded, not less

So it would appear that our options are either stick to the situation as 
it is, perform the argument processing without argtable, or rewrite the 
standard library. I think it's clear we'll be staying with the situation 
as it is.

Feel free to read "INSTALL.win" from the rsyncrypto sources for details 
how to install rsyncrypto without the MSI. Also, the MSI installation 
should have a "silent install" option (though don't ask me how to 
activate it, or how to pass it a different directory to be installed into).

Shachar