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| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vdr.c | 13 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 20 deletions
@@ -3620,3 +3620,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History - Modified page scrolling behaviour (based on a suggestion by Patrick Gleichmann). - The new setup option "OSD/Scroll wraps" can be used to activate wrapping around in menu lists (based on a suggestion by Patrick Gleichmann). +- Removed the NPTL check at startup, since several users have reported that VDR + now runs fine with NPTL. @@ -7,14 +7,7 @@ Version 1.3 IMPORTANT NOTES: ---------------- -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. - -Also, please make sure your environment is NOT set to use UTF-8 or +Please make sure your environment is NOT set to use UTF-8 or any other multibyte character representation. Check the value of your $LANG or $LC_CTYPE environment variable, and if it contains something like "de_DE.UTF-8", make sure you set it to something like "de_DE.iso8859-1" @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ * * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr * - * $Id: vdr.c 1.207 2005/05/26 10:45:29 kls Exp $ + * $Id: vdr.c 1.208 2005/06/18 11:19:07 kls Exp $ */ #include <getopt.h> @@ -302,17 +302,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) return 0; } -#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\n"); - return 2; - } - } -#endif - // Check for UTF-8 and exit if present - asprintf() will fail if it encounters 8 bit ASCII codes char *LangEnv; if ((LangEnv = getenv("LANG")) != NULL && strcasestr(LangEnv, "utf") || |