Hi, > Am 25.02.2022 um 16:51 schrieb Ben Walton via users <[email protected]>: > > I was looking at the libexpat recipe again. This kind of jumps out > from > https://sourceforge.net/p/gar/code/HEAD/tree/csw/mgar/pkg/libexpat1/trunk/Makefile#l42 > > <https://sourceforge.net/p/gar/code/HEAD/tree/csw/mgar/pkg/libexpat1/trunk/Makefile#l42>: > > # No high-entropy random in old Solaris versions > EXTRA_CPPFLAGS += -DXML_POOR_ENTROPY > > Solaris has /dev/urandom. It meets requirements. As far as I know, > even the earlier versions of the device were sufficient for > cryptographic needs. It may be time to revisit that define. > > Yeah, I'd drop it and see that it passes the test suite. Not sure how far > back you'd need to go os and hardware worse to still need it, but arms pretty > ancient to me.
I guess it would make sense to remove this option from the build recipe, right? -Ihsan
