[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-1.0pre2 compiling error (fbdev?)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:08:55PM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> DRFI>> I'd guess the headers are broken
> DRFI>
> DRFI>They are. Stupid kernel developers put kernel-internal stuff in the
> DRFI>headers and forget to #ifdef around it!
> 
> That's why you've got
> 
> [mosgalin at washi income]$ rpm -qf /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-19asp/include/linux/fb.h
> kernel-source-2.4.20-19asp
> [mosgalin at washi income]$ rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/fb.h
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10
> 
> Those files differ quite a lot.
> 
> sure kernel developers forget about some user stuff, but that's where
> linux distribution developers kick in and fix after them. Well, at least
> in ideal world; but fixing at least some of original software bugs is
> the great thing about them.

Fixing stuff like this downstream only lets the upstream developers be
lazy and continue to release broken code. This in turn screws over the
people who don't want to use slow, bloated distros that ship buggy
gcc, cripple all their packages to comply with patent nonsense, etc.

Rich