diff -Nru epic4-0.9.7/configure.in epic4-0.9.7.new/configure.in
--- epic4-0.9.7/configure.in	Fri Jul  7 04:32:24 2000
+++ epic4-0.9.7.new/configure.in	Mon Aug 21 00:15:28 2000
@@ -93,9 +93,8 @@
 	AC_CHECK_LIB(inet, socket, libnsl=1; LIBS="$LIBS -linet -lnsl_s",)
 fi
 
-if test -z "$libnsl"; then
-	AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostname, LIBS="$LIBS -lnsl",)
-fi
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostname, ,
+	AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostname, LIBS="$LIBS -lnsl",) )
 
 AC_CHECK_LIB(sun, getpwnam, LIBS="$LIBS -lsun",)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(dgc, inet_addr, LIBS="$LIBS -ldgc",)