The Xcode 3.1 Developer Tools install both the standard GNU compiler, gcc, and the LLVM compiler, llvm-gcc. I thought I’d try my hand at compiling something with LLVM, so naturally I decided to update my instructions for compiling Rsync 3 as a Universal Binary for Leopard. Let’s try Rsync 3.0.3!
The following set of instructions, of course, requires that you have already installed the Xcode 3.1, available as a download from Apple. To choose LLVM as your C compiler temporarily for this compile, specify the CC=“/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc” variable (as explained in the LLVM FAQ).
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O curl -O http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf rsync-3.0.3.tar.gz
$ rm rsync-3.0.3.tar.gz
$ curl -O http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-patches-3.0.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf rsync-patches-3.0.3.tar.gz
$ rm rsync-patches-3.0.3.tar.gz
$ cd rsync-3.0.3
$ patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
$ patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff
$ ./prepare-source
$ env CFLAGS="-O -g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -arch i386 \
-arch ppc7400 -arch ppc970 -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 \
-arch ppc7400 -arch ppc970 -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64" \
CC="/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-dependency-tracking
$ make
$ ./rsync --version
rsync version 3.0.3 protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
append, ACLs, xattrs, no iconv, symtimes, file-flags
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
$ file ./rsync
./rsync: Mach-O universal binary with 5 architectures
./rsync (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386
./rsync (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc
./rsync (for architecture ppc970): Mach-O executable ppc
./rsync (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit executable ppc64
./rsync (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
$ lipo -info ./rsync
Architectures in the fat file: ./rsync are: i386 ppc7400 ppc970 ppc64 x86_64
$ sudo make install
Warning: I have not tested Rsync 3 compiled with LLVM to ensure that it operates at all or is compatible with Rsync compiled by GCC. I haven’t compared the compilation speed against GCC’s performance, determined whether the files are larger/smaller, or have produced a more optimized binary. You use the software compiled with these instructions at your own risk.
Most of the original instructions were helpfully documented by Mike Bombich. My contributions are simply: