[Define if dlopen() is available on this platform.]),
AC_MSG_WARN([dlopen() not found - disabling plugin support]))
-dnl clock_gettime() is required for modern timing support.
-AC_SEARCH_LIBS(clock_gettime,rt,[],
- AC_MSG_ERROR([clock_gettime not found and is required for modern POSIX timing uspport]))
+dnl Search for the clock_gettime() function. Note that we rely on the POSIX
+dnl macros to detect whether clock_gettime is available, dnl this just finds
+dnl the right libraries to link with.
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(clock_gettime,rt)
dnl libffi is optional; used to call external functions from the interpreter
if test "$llvm_cv_enable_libffi" = "yes" ; then