[cmake-developers] OpenBSD and srand()/rand() changes

[David Cole]

Yes, setting an explicit seed should make subsequent calls to random
be deterministic...


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> Am 10.12.2014 15:38, schrieb Ben Boeckel:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears[1] as though OpenBSD has changed srand and rand which we use
>> in CMake for string(RANDOM) and with the change, RANDOM_SEED will be a
>> no-op there.
>>
>> Do we want to use rand_deterministic and srand_determinitic or does it
>> not matter?
>
>
> From what I see there we want to use the deterministic variants. May also
> get us rid of some warnings on OpenBSD.
>
> Eike
>
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