diff -ur metalog-0.7_org/configure.ac metalog-0.7_patch/configure.ac
--- metalog-0.7_org/configure.ac        2003-04-06 23:21:05.000000000 +0200
+++ metalog-0.7_patch/configure.ac      2004-07-19 14:41:48.226352264 +0200
@@ -162,39 +162,6 @@
 
 dnl Custom checks
 
-AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether snprintf is C99 conformant)
-AC_TRY_RUN([
-#include <stdio.h>
-#ifdef STDC_HEADERS
-# include <stdlib.h>
-# include <stddef.h>
-#else
-# if HAVE_STDLIB_H
-#  include <stdlib.h>
-# endif
-#endif
-#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
-# include <unistd.h>
-#endif
-
-int main(void)
-{
-    char buf[4];
-    
-    (void) fprintf(fopen("conftestval", "wt"), "%d\n",
-        (int) snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "12345678"));
-    return 0;
-}
-],
-CONF_SNPRINTF_TYPE=`cat conftestval`
-)
-AC_MSG_RESULT(done)
-if test "x$CONF_SNPRINTF_TYPE" = "x" ; then
-  AC_MSG_WARN(your operating system doesn't implement snprintf)
-else
-  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CONF_SNPRINTF_TYPE, $CONF_SNPRINTF_TYPE, [return value of an overflowed snprintf])
-fi
-
 dnl Options
 
 AM_WITH_DMALLOC