From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: LD errors compiling source from gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:37:46 +0000 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 21 Message-ID: <38B928AA.3D79671D@bigfoot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-15.hahnium.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news8.svr.pol.co.uk 951659059 5732 62.136.72.143 (27 Feb 2000 13:44:19 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2000 13:44:19 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Frank Donahoe wrote: > > ./gnu/gnupg-1.0.1> sh configure i586-*-msdosdjgpp > I've thought about trying to port GnuPG to DJGPP before. I think you may encounter problems with the random number generation. I believe GnuPG uses /dev/random to generate its random numbers - it certainly does on Linux, because it asks you wiggle the mouse about, etc. to generate entropy. DJGPP does not have /dev/random, nor does it have /dev/urandom. I think you will need to use the Entropy Generating Daemon (EGD), which you can get from the GnuPG home page. These are just my thoughts, since I haven't actually tried to build GnuPG. Bye, -- Richard Dawe richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/