diff --git a/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c b/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c
index 77d2488fba7..05d0c8077e5 100644
--- a/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c
+++ b/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2013, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
 #include "childproc.h"
 
+const char * const *parentPathv;
 
 ssize_t
 restartableWrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
diff --git a/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.h b/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.h
index 0911509302c..2190dd17923 100644
--- a/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.h
+++ b/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2013, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ 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);