Re: Bug#811315: getdns: FTBFS[kfreebsd]: needs getentropy implementation

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 21:42:03 +0000, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Package: getdns
> Version: 0.9.0-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch

> getdns FTBFS on kfreebsd because it lacks a getentropy implementation
> for the FreeBSD kernel.  But there is one already in LibreSSL Portable
> we can use, and works fine here.

BTW, libbsd has also a getentropy(3) implementation (lifted too from
LibreSSL), which is currently not exposed but if people want to use it
I could make it public, instead of embedding this in all sorts of
places. The difference being that libbsd is already in Debian, while
LibreSSL is not.

  <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/tree/src>

Thanks,
Guillem