diff -Nru stunnel-3.8/configure.in stunnel-3.8.new/configure.in
--- stunnel-3.8/configure.in	Mon Aug 21 19:47:21 2000
+++ stunnel-3.8.new/configure.in	Mon Aug 21 19:49:04 2000
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HOST, "$host")
 
 dnl Checks for standard libraries.
-AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostbyname)
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname, ,
+	AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostbyname, LIBS="$LIBS -lnsl",) ) 
 AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread, pthread_create)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(c_r, pthread_create)