diff -u dopewars-1.4.8.old/configure.in dopewars-1.4.8/configure.in
--- dopewars-1.4.8.old/configure.in	Sun Jul  9 21:59:10 2000
+++ dopewars-1.4.8/configure.in	Mon Oct 23 12:05:25 2000
@@ -65,10 +65,14 @@
    dnl Check for socket and select even if networking gets manually
    dnl disabled below, since select is used if available for
    dnl millisecond sleeping
-   AC_CHECK_FUNCS(socket select)
+   AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket,socket)
+   AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname,nsl socket)
+   AC_CHECK_FUNCS(socket gethostbyname select)
    if test "$ac_cv_func_select" = "yes" ; then
       if test "$ac_cv_func_socket" = "yes" ; then
-         network="yes"
+         if test "$ac_cv_func_gethostbyname" = "yes" ; then
+            network="yes"
+         fi
       fi
    fi
 fi