Re: gc.m4 and hard failure

[Simon Josefsson]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> * Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:41:29PM CET:
>>
>> Seems good.  I installed this.  Review appreciated (untested).
>
> All good except for:
>
>> +    if test "$NAME_OF_NONCE_RANDOM_DEVICE" != "no"; then
>> +      AC_CHECK_FILE($NAME_OF_NONCE_DEVICE,,
>> +        AC_MSG_WARN([[Device `$NAME_OF_NONCE_RANDOM_DEVICE' does not exist, 
>> consider to use --enable-nonce-device]]))
>> +    fi
>
> NAME_OF_NONCE_RANDOM_DEVICE and NAME_OF_NONCE_DEVICE are not the same
> variables (two instances).

Fixed, thanks.

Now that this is settled, I'm beginning to think that the random
functions should be decoupled from GC fully.  I.e., there should be a
standalone module 'random', and then gc-random could use it.  This is
more similar to other gc modules.  IIRC, CoreUtils random-sort might
be one user of this 'random' module.