diff --git a/config.lib b/config.lib
index 82e71b41e4..2a4114d6f3 100644
--- a/config.lib
+++ b/config.lib
@@ -1901,6 +1901,7 @@ detect_os() {
 					/cygwin/       { print "CYGWIN";  exit}
 					/mingw/        { print "MINGW";   exit}
 					/os\/2/        { print "OS2";     exit}
+					/gnu/          { print "UNIX";    exit}
 			'`
 		fi
 
diff --git a/src/depend/depend.cpp b/src/depend/depend.cpp
index 8510f0ecd1..7da5fecbbf 100644
--- a/src/depend/depend.cpp
+++ b/src/depend/depend.cpp
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
 #include <set>
 #include <stack>
 
+#ifndef PATH_MAX
+#	define PATH_MAX 260
+#endif
+
 /** Simple string comparator using strcmp as implementation */
 struct StringCompare {
 	/**