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Re: RFS: jabbin



On 8/29/06, Andrew Donnellan <ajdlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/29/06, George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:33, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> --cut--
> > > If it really does need a proper random seed, then you should not be
> > > getting rid of the compilation error.  It may compile correctly, but
it
> > > will not work as intended.
> >
> > I do wonder what it needs the proper random seed for though.
> >
> > If anyone can come up with a solution I'll be grateful.
>
> Probably investigating gnupg sources could give some clues wrt random seed
> handling.

Thanks for the pointer, I'll check them out.

andrew

What it seems GnuPG does is it checks which random number generator
should be used during the configure run. Maybe this test should be
added to the Jabbin configure?

andrew
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