diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 666ee31da69..074b2bab353 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ utime \
 vsnprintf \
 vasprintf \
 asprintf \
+nanosleep \
 )
 
 dnl Some systems (like OpenSolaris) do not have nanosleep in libc