diff -up dbus-glib-0.76/configure.ac.gethostbyname dbus-glib-0.76/configure.ac
--- dbus-glib-0.76/configure.ac.gethostbyname	2008-11-25 03:11:57.000000000 -0500
+++ dbus-glib-0.76/configure.ac	2008-11-25 03:12:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ fi
 
 #### Various functions
 AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,socket)
-AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname)
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS([gethostbyname],[nsl])
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(vsnprintf vasprintf nanosleep usleep poll setenv unsetenv socketpair getgrouplist)