Re: [Lynx-dev] predictable PRNG used

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:36:14 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > The output from the configure script is something to check - it
> > should whether lynx will be using the other functions, e.g.,
> >
> > checking for random-integer functions... arc4random_stir/arc4random
> > checking for range of random-integers... 0xFFFFFFFFUL
>
> Thanks for your advice.  I checked config.log and by searching
> "random" I found the followings.
>
> configure:25022: checking for random-integer functions
> configure:25061: gcc -o conftest -O2  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DLINUX 
> -I/usr/include/ncursesw  conftest.c -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lgnutls -lcrypt -lbsd  
> >&5
> /tmp/ccy2f6ti.o: In function `main':
> conftest.c:(.text+0x19): undefined reference to `arc4random_push'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:25064: $? = 1
>
> configure:25082: result: arc4random_stir/arc4random

We're looking at config.log (which shows extra details).  I had in mind 
the lines which are printed to the standard output.  This detail line has 
the information that the configure script would print to standard output,
which is what we want to see.

> configure:25085: checking for range of random-integers
> configure:25125: gcc -c -O2  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DLINUX 
> -I/usr/include/ncursesw conftest.c >&5
> configure:25128: $? = 0
> configure:25131: test -s conftest.o
> configure:25134: $? = 0
> configure:25145: result: 0xFFFFFFFFUL
>
> I'm afraid the first block looked bad but not sure.
> Is there any other information necessary?
>
> Regards,                        2009-7-9(Thu)
>
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