diff -u motion-3.2.11.broken/motion.c motion-3.2.11/motion.c
--- motion-3.2.11.broken/motion.c	2008-09-22 01:20:58.000000000 +0200
+++ motion-3.2.11/motion.c	2009-04-13 17:09:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -2738,9 +2738,6 @@
 {
     int errno_save, n;
     char buf[1024];
-#if (!defined(BSD))
-    char msg_buf[100];
-#endif
     va_list ap;
     int threadnr;
 
@@ -2767,16 +2764,7 @@
     if (errno_flag) {
         strcat(buf, ": ");
         n += 2;
-        /*
-         * this is bad - apparently gcc/libc wants to use the non-standard GNU
-         * version of strerror_r, which doesn't actually put the message into
-         * my buffer :-(.  I have put in a 'hack' to get around this.
-         */
-#if (defined(BSD))
         strerror_r(errno_save, buf + n, sizeof(buf) - n);    /* 2 for the ': ' */
-#else
-        strcat(buf, strerror_r(errno_save, msg_buf, sizeof(msg_buf)));
-#endif
     }
     /* If 'level' is not negative, send the message to the syslog */
     if (level >= 0)