Why do I have to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

[James McDonald]

I recently found that mplayer was segfaulting every time I launched it 
under my 2.6.test10 kernel. I thought it may have been a bodgy fedora 
mplayer_1.0-0.2.pre2.fr_i386.rpm but when I uninstalled it and compiled 
mplayer from source I had the same segfault problem.

However if I export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 it works.

My standard install of rpm which is rpm-4.2-0.69 also will not work 
unless the above is in the environment.

Can anyone explain If there is any way to compile these apps under a 2.6 
kernel so that I don't need to use the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL option when 
using them.

I have ended up making the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 system wide 
environment but don't know if this is a bad thing or not.

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