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Posted: **05 May 2011 19:23**

Hi,

I am trying to compile VLC from git on Ubuntu 11.04.
I ran bootstrap and configure successfully. But when I compile,

I get these errors:

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In file included from ../config.h:825:0,
                 from pthread_cancel.c:12:
ERROR   : ../include/vlc_fixups.h:327: 45:  expected ')' before '*' token
ERROR   : ../include/vlc_fixups.h:332: 38:  expected ')' before 'thread_id'
ERROR   : ../include/vlc_fixups.h:334: 53:  expected ')' before '*' token
ERROR   : ../include/vlc_fixups.h:336: 58:  expected ')' before '*' token
In file included from ../include/vlc_threads.h:51:0,
                 from ../include/vlc_common.h:494,
                 from pthread_cancel.c:15:
ERROR   : /usr/include/pthread.h:193: 3:  redeclaration of enumerator 'PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE'
../include/vlc_fixups.h:322:3: note: previous definition of 'PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE' was here

I have checked I have libpthread-stubs0-dev installed.

Thank you.

Posted: **05 May 2011 20:22**

You are not trying to build the official VLC from git, because the error refers to something that is not in the official VLC.

Posted: **05 May 2011 20:58**

The error is from vlc_fixups.h (which is under include/vlc_fixups.h of official vlc git checkout). and vlc_fixups.h is included in config.h which is also under vlc git checkout.

Posted: **05 May 2011 21:59**

The official vlc_fixups.h does not define PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE at line 322 and it never did. In fact, said line 322 is currently empty in VLC git (and it did not even exist in VLC 1.1). Thus your error is obviously caused by an unofficial modification.

Please stop lying.

Posted: **21 Jun 2011 09:38**

The same problem also exists in

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lado@genlap ~/development/android/vlc-android $ cat .git/config 
[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-android.git
[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master

So there is something wrong with vlc_fixups.g and compat/pthread_cancel.c
I assume the compat file does not what it is for...

Posted: **21 Jun 2011 09:49**

The official VLC tree does not have a compat/pthread_cancel.c. If you want help on compiling VLC, please use an official version.

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