diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 498b1cd..d50ed90 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -33,10 +33,40 @@ dnl Note, on some Sun's, you can link with -rdynamic but the resulting
 dnl a.out always core dumps.
 define(S48_RDYNAMIC, [dnl
 	AC_MSG_CHECKING([link with -rdynamic])
-	AC_TRY_COMPILE([],
-[#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__ELF__)
-	this must not compile
-#endif],
+	AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stdio.h> 
+                        #include <dlfcn.h>],
+[
+#ifndef RTLD_LAZY
+#define RTLD_LAZY 0
+#endif
+
+#ifndef RTLD_GLOBAL
+#define RTLD_GLOBAL 0
+#endif
+
+        int export_test = 0;
+	void *dlhandle;
+	void *intp;
+	char *err;
+
+	dlhandle = dlopen(NULL, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
+
+	if ((err = dlerror()) != NULL) {
+		printf("dlerror: %s\n", err);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	(void *)intp = dlsym(dlhandle, "export_test");
+	
+	if ((err = dlerror()) != NULL) {
+		printf("dlerror: %s\n", err);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+
+
+],
 		[AC_MSG_RESULT(no)],
 		[AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
 			LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -rdynamic"])
@@ -318,9 +348,11 @@ esac
      AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettimeofday ftime nlist select setitimer sigaction vasprintf)
      SCSH_SOCKLEN_T	
      AC_CHECK_FUNC(dlopen, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DLOPEN, 
-				1, [Define to 1 if the interface to the dynamic linker exists])],
+				1, [Define to 1 if the interface to the dynamic linker exists])
+                            have_dlopen="yes"],
 			   [AC_CHECK_FUNC(nlist, [AC_LIBOBJ([c/fake/libdl1])],
-	       					 [AC_LIBOBJ([c/fake/libdl2])])])
+	       					 [AC_LIBOBJ([c/fake/libdl2])])
+                            have_dlopen="no"])
      AC_CHECK_FUNCS(socket chroot)
      AC_CHECK_FUNC(strerror, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_STRERROR, 
 					1, [Define to 1 if you have the strerror function]),
@@ -355,7 +387,9 @@ fail
 		AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]),
 		AC_MSG_RESULT([no]))
      S48_USCORE
-     S48_RDYNAMIC
+     if test $have_dlopen = yes; then
+        S48_RDYNAMIC
+     fi
      AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
      AC_CHECK_MEMBER(struct tm.tm_gmtoff,
 	AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GMTOFF, 1, [Define to 1 if struct tm has member tm_gmtoff]))