diff --git a/lib/bind/bsd/Makefile.in b/lib/bind/bsd/Makefile.in
index 4d1c74e5b9..5571a8b86c 100644
--- a/lib/bind/bsd/Makefile.in
+++ b/lib/bind/bsd/Makefile.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-OBJS=	daemon.@O@ ftruncate.@O@ gettimeofday.@O@ mktemp.@O@ putenv.@O@ \
+DAEMON_OBJS=daemon.@O@
+
+OBJS=	@DAEMON_OBJS@ ftruncate.@O@ gettimeofday.@O@ mktemp.@O@ putenv.@O@ \
 	readv.@O@ setenv.@O@ setitimer.@O@ strcasecmp.@O@ strdup.@O@ \
 	strerror.@O@ strpbrk.@O@ strsep.@O@ strtoul.@O@ utimes.@O@ \
 	writev.@O@
diff --git a/lib/bind/configure.in b/lib/bind/configure.in
index d805c192b2..268b2749f9 100644
--- a/lib/bind/configure.in
+++ b/lib/bind/configure.in
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ AC_DIVERT_PUSH(AC_DIVERSION_NOTICE)dnl
 esyscmd([sed "s/^/# /" COPYRIGHT])dnl
 AC_DIVERT_POP()dnl
 
-AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.2 $)
+AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.3 $)
 
 AC_INIT(resolv/herror.c)
 AC_PREREQ(2.13)
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ AC_PROG_CC
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 
 
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h sys/time.h unistd.h sys/sockio.h sys/select.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h paths.h sys/time.h unistd.h sys/sockio.h sys/select.h)
 
 AC_C_CONST
 AC_C_INLINE
@@ -631,6 +631,14 @@ AC_SUBST(WANT_IRS_THREADS_OBJS)
 ISC_THREAD_DIR=$thread_dir
 AC_SUBST(ISC_THREAD_DIR)
 
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(daemon,
+[DAEMON_OBJS="" NEED_DAEMON="#undef NEED_DAEMON"]
+,
+[DAEMON_OBJS="\${DAEMON_OBJS}" NEED_DAEMON="#define NEED_DAEMON 1"]
+)
+AC_SUBST(DAEMON_OBJS)
+AC_SUBST(NEED_DAEMON)
+
 #
 # flockfile is usually provided by pthreads, but we may want to use it
 # even if compiled with --disable-threads.
diff --git a/lib/bind/port_after.h.in b/lib/bind/port_after.h.in
index c6925363f7..5c7771aa83 100644
--- a/lib/bind/port_after.h.in
+++ b/lib/bind/port_after.h.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 @NEED_PSELECT@
 @HAVE_SA_LEN@
 @HAVE_MINIMUM_IFREQ@
+@NEED_DAEMON@
 
 /* XXX sunos and cygwin needs O_NDELAY */
 #define PORT_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK