Hello! Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> qtbase sometimes fails to build on core-updates. I now know that it > only fails on Linux < 3.17, which is why I’ve seen the failure only on > RHEL6 and RHEL7 systems with Linux 2.6.32 and 3.10, respectively. Good catch! > With the attached patch, qtbase builds on all supported kernels as the > minimum kernel version becomes 2.6.28, which is lower than the minimum > for glibc. > > It disables code that depends on the “getentropy” and “renameat2” > syscalls. Qtbase has a fallback implementation for random things when > getentropy is not available. See src/corelib/global/qrandom.cpp for > more information. I’m late to the party but I think it’s OK. I think a better fix would be for Qt to handle ENOSYS correctly, which presumably is what happens on these old kernels. I suppose it’s also more difficult to achieve… Ludo’.
