Chris Cheney writes: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:41:49AM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote: >> ( note: '-DDEV_RANDOM=\"/dev/random\"' ) >> >> I have spent a bit of time figuring out where this is coming from, >> and apparently, it is generated with the Imakefile stuff in >> kdebase/kdm/backend ( the part where it has "#if RandomDefines" >> must be selected somehow ). >> >> I haven't got time to look into this further atm, but I hope this >> should already help...
> I wonder how DEV_RANDOM is getting set to /dev/random, the Imakefile > doesn't mention /dev/random at all. A grep of kdebase for > /dev/random turns up nothing for me, but it must be getting set > somehow. :< Yes, well, what I've noticed yesterday, is that the configure runs "xmkmf" on the Imakefile, which generates a Makefile, which contains the DEV_RANDOM define in question. So it is xmkmf which is told by the Imakefile to put the define there. I have no idea how this is supposed to work though, so we're going to have to dig up the imake manual, I guess :) cheers domi
