diff -ru cmake-2.8.3/Utilities/cmlibarchive/CMakeLists.txt cmake-2.8.3-patched/Utilities/cmlibarchive/CMakeLists.txt
--- cmake-2.8.3/Utilities/cmlibarchive/CMakeLists.txt   2010-11-04 06:58:35.000000000 +1100
+++ cmake-2.8.3-patched/Utilities/cmlibarchive/CMakeLists.txt   2011-01-01 13:04:35.000000000 +1100
@@ -415,8 +415,11 @@
 CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS(strftime         "time.h"     HAVE_STRFTIME)
 CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS(vprintf          "stdio.h"    HAVE_VPRINTF)

-CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS(major            "sys/mkdev.h"     MAJOR_IN_MKDEV)
-CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS(major            "sys/sysmacros.h" MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS)
+GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(ccomp_lsbcheck ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER} NAME)
+IF(NOT ccomp_lsbcheck STREQUAL "lsbcc")
+  CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS(major            "sys/mkdev.h"     MAJOR_IN_MKDEV)
+  CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS(major            "sys/sysmacros.h" MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS)
+ENDIF()

 IF(HAVE_STRERROR_R)
   SET(HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R 1)
diff -ru cmake-2.8.3/Utilities/cmlibarchive/libarchive/archive_entry.c cmake-2.8.3-patched/Utilities/cmlibarchive/libarchive/archive_entry.c
--- cmake-2.8.3/Utilities/cmlibarchive/libarchive/archive_entry.c       2010-11-04 06:58:35.000000000 +1100
+++ cmake-2.8.3-patched/Utilities/cmlibarchive/libarchive/archive_entry.c       2011-01-01 13:21:51.000000000 +1100
@@ -86,6 +86,32 @@
 #elif defined mkdev || ((defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined(__CYGWIN__))
 /* Windows. <sigh> */
 #define ae_makedev(maj, min) mkdev((maj), (min))
+#elif defined(__LSB_VERSION__)
+/* LSB 4.0 does not provide makedev() but all major linux distributions
+   support it. The implementation is a simple macro anyway so we just
+   embed it here to allow apps to link when built with LSB compilers.
+   The major() and minor() macros are similar. For reference, the three
+   implementations that follow were taken from Fedora 14 x86_64 but other
+   distributions should be the same. 32-bit Linux headers appears to be
+   equivalent to these as well. */
+static inline unsigned int major (unsigned long long int dev)
+{
+  return ((dev >> 8) & 0xfff) | ((unsigned int) (dev >> 32) & ~0xfff);
+}
+
+static inline unsigned int minor (unsigned long long int dev)
+{
+  return (dev & 0xff) | ((unsigned int) (dev >> 12) & ~0xff);
+}
+
+static inline unsigned long long int makedev (unsigned int majorPart, unsigned int minorPart)
+{
+  return ((minorPart & 0xff) | ((majorPart & 0xfff) << 8)
+          | (((unsigned long long int) (minorPart & ~0xff)) << 12)
+          | (((unsigned long long int) (majorPart & ~0xfff)) << 32));
+}
+
+#define ae_makedev(maj, min) makedev((maj), (min))
 #else
 /* There's a "makedev" function. */
 #define ae_makedev(maj, min) makedev((maj), (min))