diff --git a/storage/innodb_plugin/trx/trx0i_s.c b/storage/innodb_plugin/trx/trx0i_s.c
index 1b20eaabf42..a3f73e0c9e8 100644
--- a/storage/innodb_plugin/trx/trx0i_s.c
+++ b/storage/innodb_plugin/trx/trx0i_s.c
@@ -28,11 +28,18 @@ table cache" for later retrieval.
 Created July 17, 2007 Vasil Dimov
 *******************************************************/
 
+/* Found during the build of 5.5.3 on Linux 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels:
+   The includes "univ.i" -> "my_global.h" cause a different path
+   to be taken further down with pthread functions and types,
+   so they must come first.
+   From the symptoms, this is related to bug#46587 in the MySQL bug DB.
+*/
+#include "univ.i"
+
 #include <mysql/plugin.h>
 
 #include "mysql_addons.h"
 
-#include "univ.i"
 #include "buf0buf.h"
 #include "dict0dict.h"
 #include "ha0storage.h"