diff -r 87f337783d95 liboctave/lo-cutils.c
--- a/liboctave/lo-cutils.c	Wed Aug 29 10:17:36 2012 -0700
+++ b/liboctave/lo-cutils.c	Wed Aug 29 15:39:42 2012 -0500
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
   return WAITPID (pid, status, options);
 }
 
+#if ! (defined (WIFEXITED) && defined (WEXITSTATUS) && defined (WIFSIGNALED) && defined (WTERMSIG) && defined (WCOREDUMP) && defined (WIFSTOPPED) && defined (WSTOPSIG) && defined (WIFCONTINUED))
 static void
 gripe_missing_wait_macro (const char *id, int status)
 {
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@
     ("%s always returns false in this version of Octave; status = %d",
      id, status);
 }
+#endif
 
 OCTAVE_API int
 octave_wifexited (int status)