diff --git a/innobase/configure.in b/innobase/configure.in
index 1133ab86221..48bb9504219 100644
--- a/innobase/configure.in
+++ b/innobase/configure.in
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(aio.h sched.h)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int, 4)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sched_yield)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fdatasync)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(localtime_r)
 #AC_C_INLINE  Already checked in MySQL
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 
diff --git a/innobase/ut/ut0ut.c b/innobase/ut/ut0ut.c
index 07ee3d2b6fe..1436f6a10a3 100644
--- a/innobase/ut/ut0ut.c
+++ b/innobase/ut/ut0ut.c
@@ -72,19 +72,25 @@ ut_print_timestamp(
 #else
 
   struct tm  cal_tm;
+  struct tm* cal_tm_ptr;
   time_t     tm;
 
   time(&tm);
 
+#ifdef HAVE_LOCALTIME_R
   localtime_r(&tm, &cal_tm);
+  cal_tm_ptr = &cal_tm;
+#else
+  cal_tm_ptr = localtime(&tm);
+#endif
 
   fprintf(file,"%02d%02d%02d %2d:%02d:%02d",
-	  cal_tm.tm_year % 100,
-	  cal_tm.tm_mon+1,
-	  cal_tm.tm_mday,
-	  cal_tm.tm_hour,
-	  cal_tm.tm_min,
-	  cal_tm.tm_sec);
+	  cal_tm_ptr->tm_year % 100,
+	  cal_tm_ptr->tm_mon+1,
+	  cal_tm_ptr->tm_mday,
+	  cal_tm_ptr->tm_hour,
+	  cal_tm_ptr->tm_min,
+	  cal_tm_ptr->tm_sec);
 #endif
 }