# include "config.h"
#endif
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
#include <vlc_common.h>
#include "../libvlc.h"
#if 0
-#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <pthread.h>
}
#endif
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
+# include <gnu/libc-version.h>
+# include <stdlib.h>
+#endif
+
void system_Init (libvlc_int_t *libvlc, int *argc, const char *argv[])
{
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
+ const char *glcv = gnu_get_libc_version ();
+
+ /* gettext in glibc 2.5-2.7 is not thread-safe. LibVLC keeps crashing,
+ * especially in sterror_r(). Even if we have NLS disabled, the calling
+ * process might have called setlocale(). */
+ if (strverscmp (glcv, "2.5") >= 0 && strverscmp (glcv, "2.8") < 0)
+ {
+ fputs ("LibVLC has detected an unusable buggy GNU/libc version.\n"
+ "Please update to version 2.8 or newer.\n", stderr);
+ fflush (stderr);
+ abort ();
+ }
+#endif
+
#if 0
static pthread_once_t once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT;
pthread_once (&once, set_libvlc_path);