Re: [PATCH] Add NO_RSYNC to allow building without rsync

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 30, 2008, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807301231050.3334@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080730185225.GG10399@yugib.highrise.ca>

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> 
> I came about this because SCO OpenServer doesnt' have mkdtemp.  But I never use
> rsync, so making it optional was an easy fix.

Hmm. Without mkdtemp(), maybe you could just do a trivial compat function somethin glike

	char *git_mkdtemp(char *template)
	{
		char *n = mktemp(template);
		if (mkdir(n))
			n = NULL;
		return n;
	}

instead?

		Linus