diff -urNp -x '*.orig' dbus-1.12.20.org/configure.ac dbus-1.12.20/configure.ac
--- dbus-1.12.20.org/configure.ac	2020-07-02 12:09:52.000000000 +0200
+++ dbus-1.12.20/configure.ac	2022-01-08 14:11:46.166902428 +0100
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DBUS_USE_SYNC], [$ha
 
 #### Various functions
 AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket,[socket network])
-AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname,,[AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname)])
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname,,[AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname,nsl)])
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([vsnprintf vasprintf nanosleep usleep setenv clearenv unsetenv socketpair getgrouplist fpathconf setrlimit poll setlocale localeconv strtoll strtoull issetugid getresuid setresuid getrlimit prlimit])
 
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ else
         have_x11=no
     else
         have_x11=yes
-        DBUS_X_LIBS="$X_LIBS $X_PRE_LIBS -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS"
+        DBUS_X_LIBS="$X_LIBS -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS"
         DBUS_X_CFLAGS="$X_CFLAGS"
     fi
 fi