[Monotone-devel] Re: Autobuild scripts for Unix?

[Bruce Stephens]

Matt Johnston <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:45:12PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:

[...]

>> Only fairly minor problems (building with gcc-3.4).  There's no
>> entropy (I seem to remember there's a patch you can get to provide
>> /dev/random; I'll hassle people here to get it, because we need that
>> for other purposes).  
>
> Botan includes es_egd as an alternative entropy source. It
> should just be a matter of including it the same way as
> es_capi and es_win32 are used for Windows.

Maybe, but wouldn't I (or the application) need to have some way of
configuring that (pointing at the named pipe or whatever)?

Anyway, I'm not sure it's worth it.  Most systems can provide
/dev/random and /dev/urandom, and (old release of) HP-UX is no
exception.  We just need to install KRNG11i.