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Hi,

I've been attempting to cross compile VLC for Windows on my Debian linux box. I follow the extras/contrib method detailed here however after some workings get the following error:

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checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no
checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no
checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no
checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no
checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... no
checking whether pthreads work with -pthreads... no
checking whether pthreads work with -mthreads... no
checking for the pthreads library -lpthread... no
checking whether pthreads work with --thread-safe... no
checking whether pthreads work with -mt... no
checking for pthread-config... no
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-pkg-config... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libogg... ok
checking for VORBIS... yes
checking for THEORA... yes
checking for fgrep... grep -F
checking for SPEEX... yes
checking for pkg-config... yes
configure: creating shout-config.in
configure: creating ./config.status
cd && /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile
/bin/sh: ./config.status: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Makefile] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc-0.8.6a/extras/contrib/src/libshout'
make[1]: *** [.shout] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc-0.8.6a/extras/contrib/src'
make: *** [src] Error 2
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Not really sure what I'm doing wrong here. Any help appreciated, even if they're RTFMs.