2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/utils_base.h b/lib/utils_base.h
index ca27f169..113e3043 100644
--- a/lib/utils_base.h
+++ b/lib/utils_base.h
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#ifndef _UTILS_BASE_
+#define _UTILS_BASE_
 /* Header file for nagios plugins utils_base.c */
 
 /* This file holds header information for thresholds - use this in preference to 
@@ -35,3 +37,5 @@ int get_status(double, thresholds *);
 char *np_escaped_string (const char *);
 
 void die (int, const char *, ...) __attribute__((noreturn,format(printf, 2, 3)));
+
+#endif /* _UTILS_BASE_ */
diff --git a/plugins/utils.h b/plugins/utils.h
index 1f53aadb..0d00ce85 100644
--- a/plugins/utils.h
+++ b/plugins/utils.h
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ in order to resist overflow attacks. In addition, a few functions are
 provided to standardize version and error reporting across the entire
 suite of plugins. */
 
+/* now some functions etc are being defined in ../lib/utils_base.c */
+#include "utils_base.h"
+
 /* Standardize version information, termination */
 
 /* $Id$ */