diff --git a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/errno.c b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/errno.c
index b0435cc15d..3ab4e93168 100644
--- a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/errno.c
+++ b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/errno.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* 
-** Copyright 2003, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
-** Distributed under the terms of the OpenBeOS License.
+** Copyright 2003-2005, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
+** Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
 */
 
 /* Provides user space storage for "errno", located in TLS
@@ -18,3 +18,11 @@ _errnop(void)
 	return (int *)tls_address(TLS_ERRNO_SLOT);
 }
 
+
+// This is part of the Linuxbase binary specification
+// and is referenced by some code in libgcc.a.
+// ToDo: maybe we even want to include this always
+#ifdef __linux__
+extern int *(*__errno_location)(void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias("_errnop")));
+#endif
+