Added a note about NPTL to the INSTALL file

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 5ee47f16..2032e456 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2887,3 +2887,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (thanks to Jürgen Schmitz for reporting this one).
 - Fixed missing audio after replaying a DVD (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
 - Added a note about the default assignment of the color keys to MANUAL.
+- Added a note about NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library") to the INSTALL file
+  (apparently the "fix" in version 1.3.0 didn't really fix this).
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ec1906aa..012dd946 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ Installation of the Video Disk Recorder
 Version 1.3
 -----------
 
+IMPORTANT NOTE:
+---------------
+
+VDR currently doesn't work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library").
+Either don't use NPTL, or set the environment variable
+
+  LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
+  
+before running VDR.
+
 Compiling and running the program:
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