--- ../minicom-2.7/src/script.c	2013-10-29 22:07:42.000000000 +1100
+++ ./src/script.c	2016-04-19 16:02:45.252434872 +1000
@@ -1093,7 +1093,10 @@
   signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
 #endif
   /* On some Linux systems SIGALRM is masked by default. Unmask it */  
-  sigrelse(SIGALRM);  
+  sigset_t sigset;
+  sigemptyset(&sigset);
+  sigaddset(&sigset, SIGALRM);
+  sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigset, NULL);
 
   /* initialize locale support */
   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");