Hi Ihsan, Am 25.02.2022 um 20:45 schrieb İhsan Doğan via users <[email protected]>: >> 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: >> >> # 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?
Looks like I added it. From my comments above I think there was not code in libexpat to detect the proper entropy source at that time. Feel free to ditch it if the testsuite passes. Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
