diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3df28488bd..2d4c5ddd58 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-01-20  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
+
+	* gst/gstelement.h: fix _gst_element_error_printf prototype
+
 2004-01-20  David Schleef  <ds@schleef.org>
 
 	* gst/gststructure.c: (gst_structure_to_string):
@@ -17,12 +21,6 @@
 	we want to keep that one in the future or change xvidenc.c to use 
 	another error.
 
-2004-01-19  Julien MOUTTE  <julien@moutte.net>
-
-	* gst/gstelement.h: Temporary fixing core build breakage due to 
-	_gst_element_error_printf being undeclared before the macro. Thomas
-	please fix that soon !
-
 2004-01-19  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
 
 	* gst/gstelement.c: (_gst_element_error_printf):
diff --git a/gst/gstelement.h b/gst/gstelement.h
index 60bce6f5a6..2eaa279e2f 100644
--- a/gst/gstelement.h
+++ b/gst/gstelement.h
@@ -139,8 +139,6 @@ typedef enum {
 #define GST_ELEMENT_CLOCK(obj)			(((GstElement*)(obj))->clock)
 #define GST_ELEMENT_PADS(obj)			((obj)->pads)
 
-gchar * _gst_element_error_printf (const gchar *format, ...);
-
 #define gst_element_error(el, domain, code, message, debug) G_STMT_START { \
   gst_element_error_extended (GST_ELEMENT(el), \
   GST_ ## domain ## _ERROR, GST_ ## domain ## _ERROR_ ## code, \
@@ -367,7 +365,7 @@ void			gst_element_found_tags_for_pad	(GstElement *element, GstPad *pad, GstCloc
 
 void			gst_element_set_eos		(GstElement *element);
 
-gchar *			gst_element_error_printf 	(const gchar *format, ...);
+gchar *			_gst_element_error_printf 	(const gchar *format, ...);
 void			gst_element_error_extended	(GstElement *element, GQuark domain, gint code, gchar *message, gchar *debug, const gchar *file, const gchar *function, gint line);
 
 gboolean		gst_element_is_locked_state	(GstElement *element);