diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 9bf7dd236f285c6933cd9099cc91fa305750192b..f633852a6871672b6b7514e795a1120a3f1c1dc7 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(pclose    _pclose )
 
 
 dnl ** check for specific library functions that we are interested in
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(access ftime getclock getpagesize getrusage gettimeofday mktime mprotect setitimer stat sysconf timelocal times vadvise vfork)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(access ftime getclock getpagesize getrusage gettimeofday mktime mprotect readlink setitimer stat symlink sysconf timelocal times vadvise vfork)
 
 dnl ** check whether this machine has gmp2 installed
 AC_CHECK_LIB(gmp,  mpz_fdiv_qr, HaveLibGmp=YES; LibGmp=gmp,
diff --git a/mk/config.h.in b/mk/config.h.in
index bdc48225416b1e305c3e56c1793ce4944b0261a9..3c28699909464e0ce4fe036fa705277a63886c66 100644
--- a/mk/config.h.in
+++ b/mk/config.h.in
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@
 /* Define if you have the <readline/readline.h> header file.  */
 #undef HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H
 
+/* Define if you have the readlink function.  */
+#undef HAVE_READLINK
+
 /* Define if you have the <siginfo.h> header file.  */
 #undef HAVE_SIGINFO_H
 
@@ -204,6 +207,9 @@
 /* Define if you have the <string.h> header file.  */
 #undef HAVE_STRING_H
 
+/* Define if you have the symlink function.  */
+#undef HAVE_SYMLINK
+
 /* Define if you have the <sys/fault.h> header file.  */
 #undef HAVE_SYS_FAULT_H