Nikola Milutinovic wrote: > > > > I have seen that APR can be configured to use either /dev/random or > > > EGD. However, mod_auth_digest insists on /dev/random or, better said, > > > it insists on APR_HAS_RANDOM being set. > > > > APR_HAS_RANDOM should be set if you told APR to use your egd. Did you > > use the --with-egd parameter on configure? > > > > $ srclib/apr/configure --help | grep egd > > --with-egd[[=<path>]] use egd-compatible socket > > (sigh) I found out what was choking configure - indented CPPs. > > DEC's CC doesn't support indented CPP directives, it follows ANSI standard - a CPP >directive must have a "#" start in the first column of the row. Everything else can >be indented, but "#" not. In other words, this is illegal for DEC CC: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > #if !APR_HAS_RANDOM > #error You need APR random support to use auth_digest. > #endif > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CC choked on this and said there was a "#endif" missing. After correcting this (and >traversing the entire Apache source tree for this kind of mischief), it configures OK. > > I know that indented CPP looks nicer and that in complex multiplatform projects such >as this one you have to use CPP "big time". The Apache source looks preety clean, but >"configures" usually have a couple of such pitfalls. I found out that ANSI C (and >other specifications of C) allow for kind-of-indented CPPs. Namely, you can indent >everything after "#", so this is OK: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > # if !APR_HAS_RANDOM > # error You need APR random support to use auth_digest. > # endif > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > If it makes any sense to you guys, you can use it. In the meantime, I guess I'll >have to clean up every version prior to configure/compile. > > Nixie. Isn't gcc ported to Tru64 ? If it is, just compile the sources with that ...
Peter.
