diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index adc2da878..1fafc76a9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -903,6 +903,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/select.h sys/types.h stdint.h inttypes.h sched.h malloc.h]
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/vfs.h sys/mount.h sys/vmount.h sys/statfs.h sys/statvfs.h])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([mntent.h sys/mnttab.h sys/vfstab.h sys/mntctl.h sys/sysctl.h fstab.h])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/uio.h sys/mkdev.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/magic.h])
 
 # check for structure fields
 AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_mtimensec, struct stat.st_mtim.tv_nsec, struct stat.st_atimensec, struct stat.st_atim.tv_nsec, struct stat.st_ctimensec, struct stat.st_ctim.tv_nsec])
diff --git a/glib/gfileutils.c b/glib/gfileutils.c
index a87f0e97a..da6cacd99 100644
--- a/glib/gfileutils.c
+++ b/glib/gfileutils.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 #include "gstdio.h"
 #include "glibintl.h"
 
-#ifdef __linux__ /* for btrfs check */
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_MAGIC_H /* for btrfs check */
 #include <linux/magic.h>
 #include <sys/vfs.h>
 #endif