[vlc-devel] commit: Bring the glibc detection back, not using dlopen() hacks anymore. ( Rémi Denis-Courmont )

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 6 avril 2009 20:48:04 Antoine Cellerier, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009, Antoine Cellerier wrote:
> > Would it be possible to disable gettext use at runtime here instead of
> > aborting? (I don't know how gettext works ...)
>
> And maybe only run that detection bit of code if gettext support was
> compiled in VLC. Or does --disable-nls not remove all gettext usage?

I tried that too way back. But strerror() and strsignal() call gettext behind 
our back. In fact, most crashes occurred most frequently when calling 
strerror_r() from the "secret message" until we removed it for unrelated 
reasons (the message from vlc_cond_wait() in 0.8.6).

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