curl: pass --with-random=/dev/urandom to configure - manually

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Mar 21 02:23:02 PDT 2010


On Mar 21, 2010, at 03:50, Wolf Drechsel wrote:

> I failed to build curl, cc'ed that ticket:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24059
> 
> As a workaround it is suggested to pass  --with-random=/dev/urandom manually to configure. As on my machine /dev/urandom exists, I dont have to carry out that test. I did fetch, checksum, extract patch manually and than tried
> 
>>> dsl01:~ bub$ sudo port configure.args --with-random=/dev/urandom curl
>>> Unrecognized action "configure.args"
>>> dsl01:~ bub$ sudo port configure --with-random=/dev/urandom curl
>>> Error: configure does not accept --with-random=/dev/urandom
> 
> 
> … obviously that doesnt work.
> 
> What is the proper way to pass that argument?

You don't pass that argument; we modify the portfile.




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