From 314dc7dc3df37efa35058d8c1e3dd22dbbb2ed43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 03:49:47 +0000
Subject: Greg Stark's fix.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1381
---
 NEWS         | 1 +
 configure.in | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cef38475..d8d43e7f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 fetchmail-4.2.5 ()
 * Alexander Kourakos corrected his patch to avoid a buffer overrun.
+* Greg Stark's patch for better autoconfiguration on mixed libc5/libc6 systems.
 
 There are 287 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 698fc1e9..e8908274 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNC(socket,
     AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,socket)
     AC_CHECK_LIB(inet,socket))
 
-AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,inet_addr)
+# The condition in this test copes with the presence of inet_addr in libc6.
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(inet_addr,
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(using libc's inet_addr),
+    AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,inet_addr))
+
 AC_CHECK_LIB(opie,opiegenerator)
 
 dnl Port hack for Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2
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