[rdiff-backup-users] installation on Suse 9.2

[Dave Howorth]

I want to use rdiff-backup on a dual Xeon with Suse 9.2. I eventually
found the install instructions at
<http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/Installations>
and followed the instructions for Suse:

(1) Install python-devel with YaST
(2) Build librsync from source:
    (a) ./configure
    (b) make
    (c) make install
    (d) ldconfig
(3) Build rdiff-backup:
        python setup.py build

Step (3) fails with the error

/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
/usr/local/lib/librsync.a(buf.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a
local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile
with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/librsync.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

I searched the mailing list archive and the FAQ but didn't manage to
find anything. So I searched the wiki page for fPIC and found it under
the Solaris instructions.

(4) So I tried to rebuild librsync:
    (a) make clean
    (b) make AM_CFLAGS=3D-fPIC

But (4b) gives me an error:

 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. 3D-fPIC -Wall -Wshadow -Wundef
-Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -g -O2
-I./popt -MT prototab.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/prototab.Tpo -c prototab.c -o
prototab.o
gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations
make[2]: *** [prototab.lo] Error 1

I'm feeling lost at this point. Can anybody tell me what I need to do?

Thanks, Dave

(BTW, the link to the wiki is broken on
<http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/docs.html>. The link on the page is
<http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki>
but it leads Firefox to say: "The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete." and the address bar shows:
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/index.php/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/>)