diff -Nru flux-0.4.1/configure.in flux-0.4.1.new/configure.in
--- flux-0.4.1/configure.in	Thu Feb 10 00:02:07 2000
+++ flux-0.4.1.new/configure.in	Tue Aug 22 00:22:14 2000
@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@
 dnl --- Checks for libraries ---
 
 AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
-AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostbyname)
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname, ,
+	AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostbyname, LIBS="$LIBS -lnsl",) )
 
 
 dnl --- Checks for header files ---