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Re: 5.8.2 make test failure on Solaris 2.6 - srand() related?

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From:
Sam Vilain
Date:
November 12, 2003 08:03
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 make test failure on Solaris 2.6 - srand() related?
Message ID:
200311121602.54926.sam@vilain.net
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 04:43, Anthony Heading wrote;

  > Solved.  A local problem, apologies.  /dev/urandom is a late
  > addition kernel module for Solaris 2.6, and the version we had
  > installed here was openable but broken, causing the random
  > number tests - correctly - to fail.

You should submit the error message you got, along with the solution,
to the SunSolve database, or at least the Sun Manager's list
(http://www.sunmanagers.org/).  Might stop a bug report or two for
people running not-so-recently-patched 2.6.
-- 
Sam Vilain, sam@vilain.net

  "I like a man who grins when he fights."
 - Winston Churchill -


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