diff --git a/libchill/ChangeLog b/libchill/ChangeLog
index 021150233ea..8d0a95c2cd6 100644
--- a/libchill/ChangeLog
+++ b/libchill/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Nov 20 18:48:34 1998  J"orn Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
+
+	* basicio.c (PATH_MAX): Define only to _POSIX_PATH_MAX if that is
+	defined.  Otherwise, try MAXPATHLEN.
+
 Thu Oct 22 14:37:35 1998  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
 
 	* configure.in: Use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR($topsrcdir).
diff --git a/libchill/basicio.c b/libchill/basicio.c
index 7b71a084c1d..3000b0ab3ec 100644
--- a/libchill/basicio.c
+++ b/libchill/basicio.c
@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@
 #include "fileio.h"
 
 #ifndef PATH_MAX
+#ifdef _POSIX_PATH_MAX
 #define PATH_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX
+#else
+#ifdef MAXPATHLEN
+#define PATH_MAX MAXPATHLEN
+#endif
+#endif
 #endif
 
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