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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:14:06 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: apr ports devrandom option
Message-ID:  <20100617021406.0b7d8cb7@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <49C8F6CA-E527-420E-BD04-514DDF72F8A7@mac.com>
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:45:53 -0700
Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:

> On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:00 PM, RW wrote:
> > Right, but I'm asking about the "make config" port option, not the
> > configure options to apr itself.
> 
> When you enable the option via make config, apr's ./configure gets
> fed the appropriate flag:

Right, but my question was about why anyone would set the option to
"off".

On the face of it, it's a pointless option since turning it off either
does nothing or it makes Apache less secure.




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