diff -ur motor-3.4.0.orig/configure.in motor-3.4.0/configure.in
--- motor-3.4.0.orig/configure.in	2005-02-12 17:00:30.000000000 +0200
+++ motor-3.4.0/configure.in	2009-08-09 21:06:54.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 AC_INIT(aclocal.m4)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(motor, "3.4.0")
 
+### AC_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+AC_GNU_SOURCE
+
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 AC_PROG_CC
@@ -59,6 +62,8 @@
 AC_MSG_RESULT($gnu_make)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GNUMAKE, "$gnu_make", [gnu make program name])
 
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strndup])
+
 AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, main,,
     [AC_CHECK_LIB(curses, main,, AC_MSG_ERROR(The ncurses terminal library is required in order to build the program))])
 
diff -ur motor-3.4.0.orig/parser/include/strfn.h motor-3.4.0/parser/include/strfn.h
--- motor-3.4.0.orig/parser/include/strfn.h	2001-08-22 09:52:40.000000000 +0300
+++ motor-3.4.0/parser/include/strfn.h	2009-08-09 20:56:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 #ifndef _STRFN_H
 #define _STRFN_H
 
+
+#include "config.h"
+
 /*****************************************************************************/
 /* Functions for manipulate strings */
 /*****************************************************************************/
@@ -48,7 +51,10 @@
 * Return value:
 * 	char * - new string
 */
+
+#ifndef HAVE_STRNDUP
 char *strndup(const char *src, int size);
+#endif
 
 /*
 * strappend - Append source string to destination.
diff -ur motor-3.4.0.orig/parser/src/strfn.c motor-3.4.0/parser/src/strfn.c
--- motor-3.4.0.orig/parser/src/strfn.c	2001-08-22 09:52:39.000000000 +0300
+++ motor-3.4.0/parser/src/strfn.c	2009-08-09 20:57:40.000000000 +0300
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 *
 */
 
+
+#include "config.h"
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -44,6 +47,7 @@
     return z;
 }
 
+#ifndef HAVE_STRNDUP
 /* string function */
 char *strndup(const char *src, int size) {
     int s;
@@ -56,6 +60,7 @@
     
     return r;
 }
+#endif
 
 char *strappend(char *dst, const char *src) {
     int dlen;