diff -ur coreutils-5.2.1-orig/src/remove.c coreutils-5.2.1/src/remove.c
--- coreutils-5.2.1-orig/src/remove.c	2003-11-09 07:31:51.000000000 +0000
+++ coreutils-5.2.1/src/remove.c	2005-09-18 12:57:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -765,7 +765,11 @@
      unlink call.  If FILENAME is a command-line argument, then dp is NULL,
      so we'll first try to unlink it.  Using unlink here is ok, because it
      cannot remove a directory.  */
-  if ((dp && DT_IS_DIR (dp)) || is_dir == T_YES)
+  if (
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE
+      (dp && DT_IS_DIR (dp)) ||
+#endif
+      is_dir == T_YES)
     return RM_NONEMPTY_DIR;
 
   DO_UNLINK (filename, x);