truerand

["GUMMALAM,MOHAN (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)" <mo...@hp.com>]

A very simple question for most of you.  I'm compiling on HP-UX, and am
running into problems with building mod_auth_digest:

mod_auth_digest.c:305: #error APR random number support is missing; you
probably need to install the truerand library.

1. Where can I get/download truerand library from?
2. How come truerand is not packaged with Apache2.0?  

Thanks,
M

Re: truerand

[Jeff Trawick <tr...@bellsouth.net>]

"GUMMALAM,MOHAN (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)" <mo...@hp.com> writes:

> A very simple question for most of you.  I'm compiling on HP-UX, and am
> running into problems with building mod_auth_digest:
> 
> mod_auth_digest.c:305: #error APR random number support is missing; you
> probably need to install the truerand library.
> 
> 1. Where can I get/download truerand library from?

heck, I don't know :)  I found a place earlier today...  From google
just now I can see that various packages redistribute it with private
patches to solve one portability problem or another.  Somebody claims
to have solved problems it had with glibc.  mod_ssl ships it...

Does anybody know where the "best" version is, if there is such a
thing?

> 2. How come truerand is not packaged with Apache2.0?  

I think we should provide it as a backup random generator for APR on
Unix (to use when there is no kernel device like /dev/random),
assuming the license is not a problem.  (I doubt that it is.)

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