diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/numactl-2.0.11-sysmacros.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/numactl-2.0.11-sysmacros.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f953675739
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/numactl-2.0.11-sysmacros.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/580098
+
+From c1644f92e340d797e490c41a9ef9961125d202b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:49:51 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] include sys/sysmacros.h for major/minor
+
+These functions are not part of any official spec, and glibc has always
+kept them in sys/sysmacros.h.  As glibc moves to conform to POSIX, and
+more alternative C libraries come up, we need to include this header
+explicitly to get the prototypes.  Otherwise we fail to build like:
+
+affinity.c: In function 'affinity_file':
+affinity.c:177:7: warning: implicit declaration of function 'major' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+   if (major(d) != maj || minor(d) != min)
+       ^
+affinity.c:177:26: warning: implicit declaration of function 'minor' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+   if (major(d) != maj || minor(d) != min)
+                          ^
+./.libs/libnuma.so: undefined reference to 'minor'
+./.libs/libnuma.so: undefined reference to 'major'
+collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
+---
+ affinity.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/affinity.c b/affinity.c
+index 9fbd6af..984291c 100644
+--- a/affinity.c
++++ b/affinity.c
+@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
+ #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
+ #include <linux/netlink.h>
+ #include <sys/types.h>
++#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ #include <assert.h>
+ #include <regex.h>
+-- 
+2.7.4
+
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/package.py
index fa962cc021f..18123ec27e1 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/numactl/package.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ class Numactl(AutotoolsPackage):
 
     version('2.0.11',     'b56d2367217cde390b4d8087e00773b8')
 
+    patch('numactl-2.0.11-sysmacros.patch', when="@2.0.11")
+
     depends_on('autoconf', type='build')
     depends_on('automake', type='build')
     depends_on('libtool',  type='build')