2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index cb3b1e5..474a088 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ TODO: store loop pid_t and compare isndie signal handler,store 1 for same, 2 for
 TODO: embed watchers need updating when fd changes
 TODO: document portbaility requirements for atomic pointer access
 
-TODO: glibc >=2.17 do not need -lrt for clock_xxx
 	- mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
         - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
         - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
           when we can't detect the signal set size.
+        - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
+          on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
+          doing clock_gettime in userspace).
 
 4.15 Fri Mar  1 12:04:50 CET 2013
         - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
diff --git a/ev.c b/ev.c
index 4bfbe94..c8e7fb2 100644
--- a/ev.c
+++ b/ev.c
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifndef EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
-# if __linux && __GLIBC__ >= 2
+# if __linux && __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 17
 #  define EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL EV_FEATURE_OS
 # else
 #  define EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL 0