diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index d632043917..dc00ab49e6 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Jan 18 17:42:12 1996  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
+
+	* elfcore.h: Include <signal.h> before <sys/procfs.h>.
+
 Wed Jan 17 12:40:14 1996  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
 
 	* cpu-powerpc.c (arch_info_struct): Change last entry to not point
diff --git a/bfd/elfcore.h b/bfd/elfcore.h
index e505759886..e22faf7247 100644
--- a/bfd/elfcore.h
+++ b/bfd/elfcore.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
 /* Core file support */
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_H		/* Some core file support requires host /proc files */
+#include <signal.h>
 #include <sys/procfs.h>
 #else
 #define bfd_prstatus(abfd, descdata, descsz, filepos) true
@@ -366,11 +367,11 @@ elf_core_file_p (abfd)
   switch (x_ehdr.e_ident[EI_DATA])
     {
     case ELFDATA2MSB:		/* Big-endian */
-      if (abfd->xvec->byteorder_big_p == false)
+      if (! bfd_big_endian (abfd))
 	goto wrong;
       break;
     case ELFDATA2LSB:		/* Little-endian */
-      if (abfd->xvec->byteorder_big_p == true)
+      if (! bfd_little_endian (abfd))
 	goto wrong;
       break;
     case ELFDATANONE:		/* No data encoding specified */