diff --git a/dev-libs/confuse/files/confuse-2.6-solaris.patch b/dev-libs/confuse/files/confuse-2.6-solaris.patch
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/confuse/files/confuse-2.6-solaris.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Index: configure.ac
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /sources/confuse/confuse/configure.ac,v
+retrieving revision 1.18
+diff -u -B -r1.18 configure.ac
+--- configure.ac	13 Oct 2007 15:02:52 -0000	1.18
++++ configure.ac	29 Sep 2008 10:13:10 -0000
+@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
+ # Checks for library functions.
+ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strcasecmp strdup strndup])
+ 
++dnl Check for the library containing inet_aton/inet_ntoa (for tests)
++AC_SEARCH_LIBS([inet_ntoa], [socket nsl])
++
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile \
+ 		 src/Makefile \
+ 		 examples/Makefile \