diff --git a/src/backend/port/alpha/port-protos.h b/src/backend/port/alpha/port-protos.h
index 89c7d42043555891ac234521ce14d63d44bd90ad..51d3bddd7028fe9bb124555bb034d925c63ebfee 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/alpha/port-protos.h
+++ b/src/backend/port/alpha/port-protos.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: port-protos.h,v 1.3 1997/09/08 02:25:47 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: port-protos.h,v 1.4 1998/02/02 03:49:07 scrappy Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -14,26 +14,6 @@
 #ifndef PORT_PROTOS_H
 #define PORT_PROTOS_H
 
-#include <dlfcn.h>
-#include "utils/dynamic_loader.h"
-
-/* dynloader.c */
-
-/*
- * Dynamic Loader on Alpha OSF/1.x
- *
- * this dynamic loader uses the system dynamic loading interface for shared
- * libraries (ie. dlopen/dlsym/dlclose). The user must specify a shared
- * library as the file to be dynamically loaded.
- *
- */
-#define  pg_dlopen(f)	dlopen(f, RTLD_LAZY)
-#define  pg_dlsym(h, f) ((func_ptr)dlsym(h, f))
-#define  pg_dlclose(h)	dlclose(h)
-#define  pg_dlerror()	dlerror()
-
-/* port.c */
-
 extern void init_address_fixup(void);
 
 #endif							/* PORT_PROTOS_H */
diff --git a/src/backend/port/dynloader/alpha.c b/src/backend/port/dynloader/alpha.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92007c6af1ef96a9004217c876941035ceacd8f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backend/port/dynloader/alpha.c
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/* Dummy file used for nothing at this point
+ *
+ * see alpha.h
+ */
diff --git a/src/backend/port/dynloader/alpha.h b/src/backend/port/dynloader/alpha.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b3cf19949e5ed6379e67e4915a8b66a1cd8a538
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backend/port/dynloader/alpha.h
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * alpha.h--
+ *	  prototypes for OSF/1-specific routines
+ *
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
+ *
+ * $Id: alpha.h,v 1.1 1998/02/02 03:49:11 scrappy Exp $
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+#ifndef PORT_PROTOS_H
+#define PORT_PROTOS_H
+
+#include <dlfcn.h>
+#include "utils/dynamic_loader.h"
+
+/* dynloader.c */
+
+/*
+ * Dynamic Loader on Alpha OSF/1.x
+ *
+ * this dynamic loader uses the system dynamic loading interface for shared
+ * libraries (ie. dlopen/dlsym/dlclose). The user must specify a shared
+ * library as the file to be dynamically loaded.
+ *
+ */
+#define  pg_dlopen(f)	dlopen(f, RTLD_LAZY)
+#define  pg_dlsym(h, f) ((func_ptr)dlsym(h, f))
+#define  pg_dlclose(h)	dlclose(h)
+#define  pg_dlerror()	dlerror()
+
+#endif							/* PORT_PROTOS_H */