Trying to build rdiff-backup, getting error "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrsync"

Question

I am trying to build the latest version of rdiff-backup on a CentOS 6 x64 box. (linode).

I am getting the error as follows:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrsync

I have searched for a rsync.so file with no results.

I have rsync already installed. I can't find an rsync-devel package to install with Yum using the standard repositories.

Any clues?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to install librsync:

yum install librsync-devel