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From: John-Paul Stewart 
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: errors trying to install mplayerplug-in from source
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:19:46 -0500
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noalternative wrote:
> root@ubuntu:~/mplayerplug-in# make
> g++ -c -Wall -g -O2   -g -O2  -DXP_UNIX -DMOZ_X11 -I/usr/local/gecko-sdk1.6
-I/usr/local/gecko-sdk1.6/xpcom/include  -I/usr/local/gecko-sdk1
6/nspr/include -I/usr/local/gecko-sdk1.6/string/include  -I/usr/
ocal/gecko-sdk1.6/plugin/include -I/usr/local/gecko-sdk1.6/java/include
-DGECKOSDK_ENABLED -Iinclude -fPIC -DXPCOM_GLUE -DMOZILLA_STRICT_API  
-DX_ENABLED plugingate/np_entry.cpp
> plugingate/np_entry.cpp:108:16: error: token "->" is not valid in
preprocessor expressions
> plugingate/np_entry.cpp:108:1: error: unterminated #if

Hmm...this is suggesting that there's an "#if" on line 108 of 
np_entry.cpp but looking at my copy of the sources, that should just be 
"if" (no # character).  It looks to me like somehow your copy of the 
file got changed.  Manually delete the # on line 108 and see what happens.
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