diff --git a/newlib/ChangeLog b/newlib/ChangeLog
index 2770c41cf..0d19e35d4 100644
--- a/newlib/ChangeLog
+++ b/newlib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-06-18  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+	Per Posix, strsignal returns non-const char*.
+	* libc/include/string.h (strsignal): Fix return type.
+
 2008-06-17  Ken Werner  <ken.werner@de.ibm.com>
 
 	* libc/machine/spu/sys/linux_syscalls.h: New file to add Linux syscall
diff --git a/newlib/libc/include/string.h b/newlib/libc/include/string.h
index 99990da8b..9962768cf 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/include/string.h
+++ b/newlib/libc/include/string.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ char	*_EXFUN(strlwr,(char *));
 char	*_EXFUN(strupr,(char *));
 #ifdef __CYGWIN__
 #ifndef DEFS_H	/* Kludge to work around problem compiling in gdb */
-const char  *_EXFUN(strsignal, (int __signo));
+char  *_EXFUN(strsignal, (int __signo));
 #endif
 int     _EXFUN(strtosigno, (const char *__name));
 #endif