diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 044a151..bb828b4 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ porting:
 	The check for fips.h required stddef.h
 	Thanks to Matt Hilt for reporting this issue and sending a patch
 
+	Check for linux/errqueue.h failed on some systems due to lack of
+	linux/types.h inclusion. Thanks to Michael Vastola for sending a patch.
+
 docu:
 	libwrap always logs to syslog
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 60ab62b..81e1eda 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ AC_HEADER_RESOLV()
 
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(termios.h linux/if_tun.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(net/if_dl.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(linux/types.h linux/errqueue.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(linux/types.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADER(linux/errqueue.h, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LINUX_ERRQUEUE_H), [], [#include <linux/types.h>])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/utsname.h sys/select.h sys/file.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(util.h bsd/libutil.h libutil.h sys/stropts.h regex.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(linux/fs.h linux/ext2_fs.h)