Steve, sorry, but GNU/kFreeBSD is not going to happen right now. We are too busy with other things.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 16/07/14 23:02, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote: >> * Consider using _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _ALL_SOURCE as feature macros on >> unknown platforms. > >> * crypto/compat/issetugid_linux.c is used on non-Linux platforms. This >> fail on including glibc internal headers which is hardly elegant. > > Those were the only issues when I tried building it on Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD[0] (and probably the same on Hurd) which are good examples > of non-Linux platforms. > > We still have /dev/urandom, so we may be able to use getentropy_linux if > only the Linux-specific includes and the sysctl were all #ifdef __linux__ > > We also have the option of using the FreeBSD kernel's sysctl, but > suggesting a getentropy_freebsd.c would seem silly when FreeBSD itself > doesn't need one... > > An alternative for other platforms is to link with libbsd[1], so that > arc4random is available and getentropy need not be compiled, although > beware the arc4random implementation in libbsd 0.6.0 is outdated and not > currently very safe to use for this[2]. > > [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/754513#10 > [1]: http://libbsd.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/754513#186 > > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > ste...@pyro.eu.org >
