GNU bug report logs - #42095
28.0.50; Build fails on Windows/MinGW64

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Peder O. Klingenberg" <peder <at> klingenberg.no>

Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 42095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: peder <at> klingenberg.no, 42095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42095: 28.0.50; Build fails on Windows/MinGW64
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:28:52 +0300

> Cc: peder <at> klingenberg.no, 42095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:35:41 -0700
> 
> On 6/28/20 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > do we have any tests in our test suite to test the getrandom
> > function?
> 
> No. Contributions would be welcome, I assume. Testing randomness is nontrivial,
> though.

I just wanted something to cause the call to getrandom, just to see it
working and producing some reasonable value.  Would that be easy to
arrange?

Thanks.
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