On 02/04/2021 22:36, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 28/03/2021 15:43, Anton Shepelev wrote: >> I cannot build the last version of the Netpbm package because it now >> depends on the random() and srandom() functions from POSIX:> >> https://manned.org/random.3 >> >> Will the maintainers consider providing them in MinGW to simplify the >> building of code that depends on basic POSIX facilities? > > Sorry, but my initial inclination is to say no ... Notwithstanding my reluctance to support this, FWIW I did find https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/random/ from which, with hints from the GNULIB random_r.c implementation[1], I've derived the attached patch. While I still will not attest to the statistical reliability of this, if you would care to submit a formal feature request[2], and there is sufficient interest expressed, (by way of up-votes), I may consider incorporation into libmingwex.a, subject to a requirement for the caller to define either _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500, or _BSD_SOURCE, before including <stdlib.h>, to expose the API declarations. [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/random_r.c Although GNULIB modules are normally licensed under LGPL, (which is NOT compatible with the licence requirements for libmingwrt.a), this file also exhibits a BSD licence, (which IS compatible). Thus, I believe that I am justified in incorporating hints as to suitable constant definitions, under the terms of the BSD licence. [2] https://mingw.osdn.io/index.html?page=contact.html#feature-request -- Regards, Keith. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: posix-prng-implementation.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 14737 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20210407/7f2f6f6f/attachment.bin>
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