The tkill(2) function was removed from libc in NDK r11. diff -u -r ../bdwgc-c861ec3d1825b5bb450d20bf9091562fa8a81a4d/pthread_stop_world.c ./pthread_stop_world.c --- ../bdwgc-c861ec3d1825b5bb450d20bf9091562fa8a81a4d/pthread_stop_world.c 2016-01-13 03:34:56.000000000 -0500 +++ ./pthread_stop_world.c 2016-03-10 07:09:03.607785056 -0500 @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ #endif #ifdef USE_TKILL_ON_ANDROID - extern int tkill(pid_t tid, int sig); /* from sys/linux-unistd.h */ + static int tkill(pid_t tid, int sig) { return tgkill(-1, tid, sig); } static int android_thread_kill(pid_t tid, int sig) {