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| -rw-r--r-- | src/input/input_v4l.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/input/input_v4l.c b/src/input/input_v4l.c index 25190d7c3..23b559170 100644 --- a/src/input/input_v4l.c +++ b/src/input/input_v4l.c @@ -33,6 +33,22 @@ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> + +/* From GStreamer's v4l plugin: + * Because of some really cool feature in video4linux1, also known as + * 'not including sys/types.h and sys/time.h', we had to include it + * ourselves. In all their intelligence, these people decided to fix + * this in the next version (video4linux2) in such a cool way that it + * breaks all compilations of old stuff... + * The real problem is actually that linux/time.h doesn't use proper + * macro checks before defining types like struct timeval. The proper + * fix here is to either fuck the kernel header (which is what we do + * by defining _LINUX_TIME_H, an innocent little hack) or by fixing it + * upstream, which I'll consider doing later on. If you get compiler + * errors here, check your linux/time.h && sys/time.h header setup. +*/ +#define _LINUX_TIME_H + #include <linux/videodev.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/mman.h> |