--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 ### along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
 ### Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 
-AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.180 $)
+AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.181 $)
 AC_PREREQ(2.9)
 AC_INIT(src/octave.cc)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
@@ -312,18 +312,6 @@
 fi
 AC_SUBST(LD_STATIC_FLAG)
 
-### Try to make it possible to find getrusage on Solaris systems.
-
-case "$canonical_host_type" in
-  *-*-solaris2*)
-    UCBLIB=/usr/ucblib/libucb.a
-    if test -f $UCBLIB; then
-      LIBS="-lc $UCBLIB $LIBS"
-      AC_MSG_RESULT([adding $UCBLIB to LIBS])
-    fi
-  ;;
-esac
-
 ### Handle dynamic linking and shared library options.
 
 ### Allow the user to experiment with dynamic linking using dlopen/dlsym.
@@ -679,7 +667,7 @@
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(setvbuf getcwd gethostname bzero bcopy rindex vfprintf vsprintf)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(stricmp strnicmp strcasecmp strncasecmp strerror atexit)
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(on_exit tempnam memmove putenv getrusage times)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(on_exit tempnam memmove putenv)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(mkdir rmdir rename umask)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sigaction sigprocmask sigpending sigsuspend)
 
@@ -861,6 +849,20 @@
 esac
 AC_SUBST(VOID_SIGHANDLER)
 
+### Try to make it possible to find getrusage on Solaris systems.
+
+case "$canonical_host_type" in
+  *-*-solaris2*)
+    UCBLIB=/usr/ucblib/libucb.a
+    if test -f $UCBLIB; then
+      LIBS="-lc $UCBLIB $LIBS"
+      AC_MSG_RESULT([adding $UCBLIB to LIBS])
+    fi
+  ;;
+esac
+
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getrusage times)
+
 ### Checks for other programs used for building, testing, installing,
 ### and running Octave.
 ###