diff --git a/config-unix.mk b/config-unix.mk
index 0236f09f..f63bbb22 100644
--- a/config-unix.mk
+++ b/config-unix.mk
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ EIO_CPPFLAGS += -DEIO_CONFIG_H=\"$(EIO_CONFIG)\"
 EIO_CPPFLAGS += -DEIO_STACKSIZE=65536
 EIO_CPPFLAGS += -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
 EIO_CPPFLAGS += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
+EIO_CPPFLAGS += -D_GNU_SOURCE
 
 eio/eio.o: eio/eio.c
 	$(CC) $(EIO_CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c eio/eio.c -o eio/eio.o
diff --git a/uv-linux.c b/uv-linux.c
index 2d26c9bc..8f088043 100644
--- a/uv-linux.c
+++ b/uv-linux.c
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <time.h>
 
+#undef NANOSEC
+#define NANOSEC 1000000
+
 /*
  * There's probably some way to get time from Linux than gettimeofday(). What
  * it is, I don't know.