diff -up numactl-1.0.2/syscall.c.orig numactl-1.0.2/syscall.c
--- numactl-1.0.2/syscall.c.orig	2007-12-20 10:07:04.000000000 -0500
+++ numactl-1.0.2/syscall.c	2007-12-20 10:07:28.000000000 -0500
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ long syscall6(long call, long a, long b,
 #endif
 
 long WEAK get_mempolicy(int *policy, 
-		   const unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode,
+		   unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode,
 		   void *addr, int flags)          
 {
 	return syscall(__NR_get_mempolicy, policy, nmask, maxnode, addr, flags);
diff -up numactl-1.0.2/numaif.h.orig numactl-1.0.2/numaif.h
--- numactl-1.0.2/numaif.h.orig	2007-12-20 10:07:51.000000000 -0500
+++ numactl-1.0.2/numaif.h	2007-12-20 10:07:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extern "C" { 
 
 /* System calls */
 extern long get_mempolicy(int *policy, 
-			  const unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode,
+			  unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode,
 			  void *addr, int flags);
 extern long mbind(void *start, unsigned long len, int mode, 
 		  const unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode, unsigned flags);