--- a/src/sighandlers.h
+++ b/src/sighandlers.h
@@ -47,89 +47,8 @@
 
 // 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
-  };
+#ifndef SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED
+extern char *sys_siglist[];
 #endif
 
 #endif