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From: Stuart Henderson <sthen <at> openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions
Newsgroups: gmane.os.openbsd.tech
Date: Friday 11th July 2014 23:18:36 UTC (over 4 years ago)
On 2014/07/12 01:13, Hanno Böck wrote:
> I didn't know what egd was up until today, but reading what it is I
> completely understand that consideration. However, this breaks a number
> of packages (wget, python, ruby).

> There's probably a simple solution: Just add dummy functions that
> always return -1 (which according to the docs means "egd not
> available"). This is also what openssl did on archs that had no egd.

If I remember correctly from m2k14 that was decided against.

If you want a heads-up on some others that need to cope with this,
the list also includes:

dcmtk
heimdal
imapproxy
ircd-hybrid
ircd-ratbox
links+, links, elinks
Net::SSLeay
opencm
php
py-openssl
retawq
s-nail
socat
stunnel
xmlsec
 
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