Add a no-egd option to disable EGD-related code The entropy-gathering daemon is used only on a small number of machines. Provide a configure knob so that EGD support can be disabled by default but re-enabled on those systems that do need it. Reviewed-by: Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure index c309485..7126659 100755 --- a/Configure +++ b/Configure
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ # see INSTALL for instructions. -my $usage="Usage: Configure [no-<cipher> ...] [enable-<cipher> ...] [experimental-<cipher> ...] [-Dxxx] [-lxxx] [-Lxxx] [-fxxx] [-Kxxx] [no-hw-xxx|no-hw] [[no-]threads] [[no-]shared] [[no-]zlib|zlib-dynamic] [no-asm] [no-dso] [sctp] [386] [--prefix=DIR] [--openssldir=OPENSSLDIR] [--with-xxx[=vvv]] [--test-sanity] [--config=FILE] os/compiler[:flags]\n"; +my $usage="Usage: Configure [no-<cipher> ...] [enable-<cipher> ...] [experimental-<cipher> ...] [-Dxxx] [-lxxx] [-Lxxx] [-fxxx] [-Kxxx] [no-hw-xxx|no-hw] [[no-]threads] [[no-]shared] [[no-]zlib|zlib-dynamic] [no-asm] [no-dso] [no-egd] [sctp] [386] [--prefix=DIR] [--openssldir=OPENSSLDIR] [--with-xxx[=vvv]] [--test-sanity] [--config=FILE] os/compiler[:flags]\n"; # Options: # @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ # no-asm do not use assembler # no-dso do not compile in any native shared-library methods. This # will ensure that all methods just return NULL. +# no-egd do not compile support for the entropy-gathering daemon APIs # [no-]zlib [don't] compile support for zlib compression. # zlib-dynamic Like "zlib", but the zlib library is expected to be a shared # library and will be loaded in run-time by the OpenSSL library. @@ -905,6 +906,7 @@ my %disabled = ( # "what" => "comment" [or special keyword "experimental"] "ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" => "default", + "egd" => "default", "jpake" => "experimental", "md2" => "default", "rc5" => "default",