Re: Just made some maintenance commits

[Shawn Wagner]

All the normal tests are passing on Linux systems, so don't jump into reverting the rand stuff. For all I know it's just more of something in the tests depending on a GNUism that's easy to fix or work around.

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 11:19 PM Tim Rice <trice@posteo.net> wrote:

Hi Shawn,

Hmm, okay. Thanks for the heads up. Maybe I will just revert those commits. Sounds like they were a bad idea, and I'll just have to think of another way to do the benchmarking I had in mind.

I can't do the reverts at the second, but in the next day or so.

~ Tim



On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 11:12:24PM -0800, Shawn Wagner wrote:
>I blew the dust off of my BSD VMs and discovered that datamash failed to
>build on them because of the new rand program using a function they don't
>have (getrandom()). I added the needed bits to the list of GNUlib modules
>in bootstrap.conf, and then fixed some warnings about deprecated/obsolete
>GNUlib and autoconf stuff that bootstrapping whined about.
>
>And now the rand related tests are getting failures on Net and Open BSD,
>but I haven't had a chance to dig into why yet.