--- a/src/sighandlers.h
+++ b/src/sighandlers.h
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 */
 
+// This file should always be included after config.h!
+
 #if !defined (octave_sighandlers_h)
 #define octave_sighandlers_h 1
 
@@ -43,6 +45,93 @@
 
 extern void install_signal_handlers (void);
 
+// This is taken directly from Emacs 19:
+
+#ifndef HAVE_SYS_SIGLIST
+char *sys_siglist[NSIG + 1] =
+{
+#ifdef AIX
+/* AIX has changed the signals a bit */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 0 */
+  "hangup",				/* 1  SIGHUP */
+  "interrupt",				/* 2  SIGINT */
+  "quit",				/* 3  SIGQUIT */
+  "illegal instruction",		/* 4  SIGILL */
+  "trace trap",				/* 5  SIGTRAP */
+  "IOT instruction",			/* 6  SIGIOT */
+  "crash likely",			/* 7  SIGDANGER */
+  "floating point exception",		/* 8  SIGFPE */
+  "kill",				/* 9  SIGKILL */
+  "bus error",				/* 10 SIGBUS */
+  "segmentation violation",		/* 11 SIGSEGV */
+  "bad argument to system call",	/* 12 SIGSYS */
+  "write on a pipe with no one to read it", /* 13 SIGPIPE */
+  "alarm clock",			/* 14 SIGALRM */
+  "software termination signum",	/* 15 SIGTERM */
+  "user defined signal 1",		/* 16 SIGUSR1 */
+  "user defined signal 2",		/* 17 SIGUSR2 */
+  "death of a child",			/* 18 SIGCLD */
+  "power-fail restart",			/* 19 SIGPWR */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 20 */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 21 */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 22 */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 23 */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 24 */
+  "LAN I/O interrupt",			/* 25 SIGAIO */
+  "PTY I/O interrupt",			/* 26 SIGPTY */
+  "I/O intervention required",		/* 27 SIGIOINT */
+  "HFT grant",				/* 28 SIGGRANT */
+  "HFT retract",			/* 29 SIGRETRACT */
+  "HFT sound done",			/* 30 SIGSOUND */
+  "HFT input ready",			/* 31 SIGMSG */
+#else /* not AIX */
+  "bogus signal",			/* 0 */
+  "hangup",				/* 1  SIGHUP */
+  "interrupt",				/* 2  SIGINT */
+  "quit",				/* 3  SIGQUIT */
+  "illegal instruction",		/* 4  SIGILL */
+  "trace trap",				/* 5  SIGTRAP */
+  "IOT instruction",			/* 6  SIGIOT */
+  "EMT instruction",			/* 7  SIGEMT */
+  "floating point exception",		/* 8  SIGFPE */
+  "kill",				/* 9  SIGKILL */
+  "bus error",				/* 10 SIGBUS */
+  "segmentation violation",		/* 11 SIGSEGV */
+  "bad argument to system call",	/* 12 SIGSYS */
+  "write on a pipe with no one to read it", /* 13 SIGPIPE */
+  "alarm clock",			/* 14 SIGALRM */
+  "software termination signum",	/* 15 SIGTERM */
+  "user defined signal 1",		/* 16 SIGUSR1 */
+  "user defined signal 2",		/* 17 SIGUSR2 */
+  "death of a child",			/* 18 SIGCLD */
+  "power-fail restart",			/* 19 SIGPWR */
+#ifdef sun
+  "window size change",			    /* 20 SIGWINCH */
+  "urgent socket condition",		    /* 21 SIGURG */
+  "pollable event occured",		    /* 22 SIGPOLL */
+  "stop (cannot be caught or ignored)", /*  23 SIGSTOP */
+  "user stop requested from tty",	    /* 24 SIGTSTP */
+  "stopped process has been continued",	/* 25 SIGCONT */
+  "background tty read attempted",	    /* 26 SIGTTIN */
+  "background tty write attempted",    /* 27 SIGTTOU */
+  "virtual timer expired",		    /* 28 SIGVTALRM */
+  "profiling timer expired",		    /* 29 SIGPROF */
+  "exceeded cpu limit",			    /* 30 SIGXCPU */
+  "exceeded file size limit",		    /* 31 SIGXFSZ */
+  "process's lwps are blocked",	    /*  32 SIGWAITING */
+  "special signal used by thread library", /* 33 SIGLWP */
+#ifdef SIGFREEZE
+  "Special Signal Used By CPR",	    /* 34 SIGFREEZE */
+#endif
+#ifdef SIGTHAW
+  "Special Signal Used By CPR",	    /* 35 SIGTHAW */
+#endif
+#endif /* sun */
+#endif /* not AIX */
+  0
+  };
+#endif
+
 #endif
 
 /*