Re: Error: librsync support

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:53:02 +0200
Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:

> ...
> > How do I get a version of dar with "Delta compression support"?  Do
> > I have to build one myself?  
> 
> Yes you can, this is not complicated:
> 
> http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/from_sources.html

I am trying this now.  However, when running misc/init, I get this:

> Please create po/Makevars from the template in po/Makevars.template.
> You can then remove po/Makevars.template.
> 
> Please fill po/POTFILES.in as described in the documentation.
> 
> Please run 'aclocal' to regenerate the aclocal.m4 file.
> You need aclocal from GNU automake 1.9 (or newer) to do this.
> Then run 'autoconf' to regenerate the configure file.
> 
> You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get
> from the CVS of the 'config' project at http://savannah.gnu.org/. The
> commands to fetch them are
> $ wget
> 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess'
> $ wget
> 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub'
> 
> You might also want to copy the convenience header file gettext.h
> from the /usr/share/gettext directory into your package.
> It is a wrapper around <libintl.h> that implements the configure
> --disable-nls option.

I don't have a reason to use gettext.  How do I avoid these steps?

My plan is to build dar_static with librsync, and store a copy with the
backup (with par2 protection).

> > 
> > I am using Debian (stable) 10.9.
> > 
> >   
> 
> For Debian an better option would be to report the problem to the
> person in charge of building dar/libdar for this distro (the distro
> maintainer for dar/libdar) for he/she adds librsync an other missing
> (but optional) dependencies to the Debian packaging process of
> dar/libdar.

That's a possible option (I am using the MX distro, and the maintainers
are usually very good about such requests), but even if I do get a
result, it will probably take a while.