--- jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/childproc.h
+++ jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/childproc.h
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ typedef struct _SpawnInfo {
  * The cached and split version of the JDK's effective PATH.
  * (We don't support putenv("PATH=...") in native code)
  */
-const char * const *parentPathv;
+extern const char * const *parentPathv;
 
 ssize_t restartableWrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
 int restartableDup2(int fd_from, int fd_to);