diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dec9f22c56..0d75f673cd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Thu Apr 11 19:10:37 2002  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* io.c (remain_size): IO#read returns "" if file.size == 0.
 
+	* random.c (rand_init): add check for initstate(3).
+
+	* configure.in: ditto.
+
 Thu Apr 11 09:31:19 2002  Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@kt.jaist.ac.jp>
 
 	* ext/dl/ptr.c: raise() -> rb_raise(). (Thanks Tetsuya Watanabe)
diff --git a/random.c b/random.c
index e76437285b..ba568cdb82 100644
--- a/random.c
+++ b/random.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ rand_init(seed)
     int old;
     static unsigned int saved_seed;
 
-#if defined HAVE_RANDOM && !defined __UCLIBC__
+#if defined HAVE_INITSTATE
     if (first == 1) {
 	initstate(1, state, sizeof state);
     }