[vdr] Re: Avoiding NPTL problems

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> ...
> I'm planning on adding a few lines
> of code to VDR/vdr.c, which check for the presence of NPTL and, in case
> it is, exit the program and tell the user to do 'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1'
> before starting vdr.
> ...
> --- vdr.c       2004/05/16 10:12:43     1.181
> +++ vdr.c       2004/06/10 12:58:48
> @@ -84,6 +84,17 @@
> 
>  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  {
> +#ifdef _CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
> +  // Check for NPTL and exit if present - VDR apparently doesn't run well with NPTL:
> +  char LibPthreadVersion[128];
> +  if (confstr(_CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION, LibPthreadVersion, sizeof(LibPthreadVersion) > 0)) {
> +     if (strstr(LibPthreadVersion, "NPTL")) {
> +        fprintf(stderr, "vdr: please turn off NPTL by setting 'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1' before starting vdr");
> +        return 1;

This should actually be 'return 2;'.

Klaus