diff --git a/libiberty/ChangeLog b/libiberty/ChangeLog
index 0d286158d2ed..d0144fce4f8e 100644
--- a/libiberty/ChangeLog
+++ b/libiberty/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Nov  2 03:23:13 1999  Philippe De Muyter  <phdm@macqel.be>
+
+	* xstrdup (sys/types.h): Include this file.
+
 1999-10-28  Nathan Sidwell  <nathan@acm.org>
 
 	* Makefile.in (SUBDIRS): New macro.
diff --git a/libiberty/xstrdup.c b/libiberty/xstrdup.c
index e16aba08554b..6f846cfea156 100644
--- a/libiberty/xstrdup.c
+++ b/libiberty/xstrdup.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
    This trivial function is in the public domain.
    Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, December 1995.  */
 
+#include <sys/types.h>
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
 #include "config.h"
 #endif