On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:22:08PM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Package: linux-kernel-headers > Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-5 > Severity: normal > > Hi > > It looks to me, that latest package makes some problem when > compiling application which are doing something with Video4Linux. > > As the API is still mostly the same I'm suspecting there > some serious problems with uncompilability of the headers itself. > > Just try to compile packages like mplayer/aviplay/ffmpeg. > > Also from my point of view (developer of avifile) these new headers > contain prohibited C++ keywords inside of them - thus makes them > hardly compilable with C++ compiler (yes even a C++ program > might want to use v4l interface) > > Someone really should consider to clean all these headers. > > Also what's the point to put there zillion of 'warnings' about > not using kernel headers in user-space apps. when simply there > is no other way know to me to communicate with v4l interface.
Sure there is: write a set of v4l headers which can be safely included from userspace. Or you could even copy a set of them which did work. We're shipping the headers unmodified from the 2.6 kernel. If they're broken there, then either a userspace version needs to be made or they need to be fixed. Also, you didn't give me either a list of headers or any exact error output, so that doesn't give me much to work with. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
