diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile b/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile
index f66043b57a..b918a746d1 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ for architectureObject in [ MultiArchSubDirSetup ] {
 			assert.cpp
 			cat.cpp
 			dlfcn.c
-			dirent.c
+			dirent.cpp
 			errno.c
 			fcntl.cpp
 			glob.c
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/dirent.c b/src/system/libroot/posix/dirent.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from src/system/libroot/posix/dirent.c
rename to src/system/libroot/posix/dirent.cpp