--- slurm-17.02.8/configure.ac.old	2017-10-25 14:35:36.325236357 -0400
+++ slurm-17.02.8/configure.ac	2017-10-25 15:24:41.023876115 -0400
@@ -124,7 +124,13 @@
 AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
 AC_HEADER_TIME
 AC_HEADER_STDC
+
+dnl Workaround for transition of autoconf/glibc issues in deprecation of the
+dnl definitions major, minor, makedev by sys/types.h vs sys/sysmacros.h
+old_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
 AC_HEADER_MAJOR
+CFLAGS=$old_CFLAGS
 
 dnl Checks for structures.
 dnl