Lets assume glibc 2.8 will work properly when it's out (though I doubt it)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3df8dc17b831980c2370cd531d9274a78fee366c..0509d073d4f786ca7d10eeae3c09ce4c38076f6e 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
 
 Important notes:
 ----------------
+ * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
+   to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
  * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
    If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
    edit the ".hosts" file.

diff --git a/src/vlc.c b/src/vlc.c
index 828ea264eade0f0a157a763c7542501eea92ce98..e9190c825b60eb8b8c4abf74fbc8a4c69031554c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/vlc.c
+++ b/src/vlc.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
     int i_ret;
 
 #   ifdef __GLIBC__
-    if (dlsym (RTLD_NEXT, "sync_file_range"))
+    if (dlsym (RTLD_NEXT, "sync_file_range") && !dlsym (RTLD_NEXT, "qsort_r"))
     {
         /* Way too many Linux users have glibc 2.6 that keeps crashing
          * inside its non-thread-safe dcgettext(). */