On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oh, one more thought: the removal of the --disable-strong-random
> documentation stanza means there's no explanation of what to do
> to build on platforms without /dev/urandom. Perhaps something
> like this in installation.sgml:
>
> <para>
> - You need <productname>OpenSSL</productname>, if you want to support
> - encrypted client connections. The minimum required version is
> - 0.9.8.
> + You need <productname>OpenSSL</productname> if you want to support
> + encrypted client connections. <productname>OpenSSL</productname>
> + is also required for random number generation on platforms that
> + do not have <filename>/dev/urandom</filename> (except Windows).
> + The minimum required version is 0.9.8.
> </para>
Okay, I have included something among those lines.
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Michael