diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 83c5318..4364d81 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ porting:
 	Lauri Tirkkonen contributed a patch regarding netinet/if_ether.h
 	on Illumos
 
+	Red Hat issue 1182005: socat 1.7.2.4 build failure missing
+	linux/errqueue.h
+	Socat failed to compile on on PPC due to new requirements for
+	including <linux/errqueue.h> and a weakness in the conditional code.
+	Thanks to Michel Normand for reporting this issue.
+
 testing:
 	Do not distribute testcert.conf with socat source but generate it
 	(and new testcert6.conf) during test.sh run.
diff --git a/config.h.in b/config.h.in
index 40ccf6a..b2fa202 100644
--- a/config.h.in
+++ b/config.h.in
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@
 /* define if your struct sigaction has sa_sigaction */
 #undef HAVE_STRUCT_SIGACTION_SA_SIGACTION
 
+/* define if you have struct sock_extended_err */
+#undef HAVE_STRUCT_SOCK_EXTENDED_ERR
+
 /* Define if your struct termios has component c_ispeed */
 #undef HAVE_TERMIOS_ISPEED
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 5610f2c..4e0258a 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ 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)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(linux/errqueue.h, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LINUX_ERRQUEUE_H), [], [#include <linux/types.h>])
+AC_CHECK_HEADER(linux/errqueue.h, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LINUX_ERRQUEUE_H), [], [#include <sys/time.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)
@@ -936,6 +937,22 @@ if test $sc_cv_type_sa_family_t = yes; then
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($sc_cv_type_sa_family_t)
 
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for struct sock_extended_err)
+AC_CACHE_VAL(sc_cv_struct_sock_extended_err,
+[AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <linux/types.h>
+#if TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#endif
+#if HAVE_LINUX_ERRQUEUE_H
+#include <linux/errqueue.h>
+#endif],[struct sock_extended_err s;],
+[sc_cv_struct_sock_extended_err=yes],
+[sc_cv_struct_sock_extended_err=no])])
+if test $sc_cv_struct_sock_extended_err = yes; then
+   AC_DEFINE(HAVE_STRUCT_SOCK_EXTENDED_ERR)
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT($sc_cv_struct_sock_extended_err)
+
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for struct sigaction.sa_sigaction)
 AC_CACHE_VAL(sc_cv_struct_sigaction_sa_sigaction,
 [AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <signal.h>],[struct sigaction s;s.sa_sigaction=0;],
diff --git a/xio-ip.c b/xio-ip.c
index bc870d2..0c9141d 100644
--- a/xio-ip.c
+++ b/xio-ip.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ int xiolog_ancillary_ip(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, int *num,
       return STAT_OK;
 #endif /* defined(IP_PKTINFO) && HAVE_STRUCT_IN_PKTINFO */
 #endif /* WITH_IP4 */
-#ifdef IP_RECVERR
+#if defined(IP_RECVERR) && HAVE_STRUCT_SOCK_EXTENDED_ERR
    case IP_RECVERR: {
       struct sock_extended_err *err =
 	 (struct sock_extended_err *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ int xiolog_ancillary_ip(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, int *num,
 	       err->ee_code, '\0', err->ee_info, '\0', err->ee_data);
       return STAT_OK;
    }
-#endif /* IP_RECVERR */
+#endif /* defined(IP_RECVERR) && HAVE_STRUCT_SOCK_EXTENDED_ERR */
 #ifdef IP_RECVIF
    case IP_RECVIF: {
       /* spec in FreeBSD: /usr/include/net/if_dl.h */