diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4aa3aeb..290d7c9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -72,12 +72,15 @@ Porting:
 	Filan: Solaris has the open file path infos in /proc/<pid>/path/
 	Thanks to Andy Fiddaman to directing me to the patch.
 
+	Filan now recognizes and prints Solaris doors and event ports.
+
+	Solaris derivatives no longer need librt for clock_gettime()
+	Thanks to Andy Fiddaman to directing me to the patch.
+
 Features:
 	Filan prints target of symlink when appropriate
 	Test: FILANSYMLINK
 
-	Filan now recognizes and prints Solaris doors and event ports.
-
 Testing:
 	Unset SOCAT_MAIN_WAIT on informational Socat calls
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f32ff86..9d60473 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1516,8 +1516,7 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(util, openpty,
 
 AC_CHECK_PROTOTYPE_LIB(gettimeofday)
 
-AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, clock_gettime,
-		 [LIBS="-lrt $LIBS"; AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)])
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(clock_gettime, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME), AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, clock_gettime, [LIBS="-lrt $LIBS"; AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)]))
 
 dnl Search for flock()
 # with Linux it's in libc, with AIX in libbsd