diff -ruN ninja-1.6.0-orig/src/util.cc ninja-1.6.0-new/src/util.cc
--- ninja-1.6.0-orig/src/util.cc	2015-06-29 17:21:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ninja-1.6.0-new/src/util.cc	2015-09-29 18:25:40.593853286 +0000
@@ -570,17 +570,30 @@
   } else {
     posix_compatible_load = -0.0;
   }
-
   return posix_compatible_load;
 }
 #else
 double GetLoadAverage() {
   double loadavg[3] = { 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f };
+/* loadavg for uclibc on linux, actually works lib independant on all linux... */
+#if defined(__UCLIBC__) && defined(__linux__)
+  int fh;
+  char fb[16];
+  if ( (fh=open("/proc/loadavg",O_RDONLY)) !=-1 ){  /* it's a pitty /proc can't be mmapped */
+    if (read(fh,fb,sizeof(fb)-1)!=-1){
+        fb[15]='\0'; /* ensure string termination */
+        loadavg[0]=strtod(fb,NULL); /* nasty but only the first val is used anyway */
+    }
+    close(fh);
+  }
+#else
+
   if (getloadavg(loadavg, 3) < 0) {
     // Maybe we should return an error here or the availability of
     // getloadavg(3) should be checked when ninja is configured.
     return -0.0f;
   }
+#endif
   return loadavg[0];
 }
 #endif // _WIN32