--- ./gnulib/lib/physmem.c.orig
+++ ./gnulib/lib/physmem.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "physmem.h"
 
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 
 #if HAVE_SYS_PSTAT_H
 # include <sys/pstat.h>
@@ -81,6 +82,22 @@
 double
 physmem_total (void)
 {
+#if defined(__UCLIBC__)
+        char line[128];
+        FILE *f = fopen("/proc/meminfo", "r");
+        long double result = -1;
+        if (f == NULL)
+                return 0;
+        while (!feof(f) && fgets(line, sizeof(line)-1, f)) {
+                if (sscanf(line, "MemTotal: %Lf kB", &result) == 1) {
+                        result *= 1024;
+                        break;
+                }
+        }
+        fclose(f);
+        return result;
+#endif
+
 #if defined _SC_PHYS_PAGES && defined _SC_PAGESIZE
   { /* This works on linux-gnu, solaris2 and cygwin.  */
     double pages = sysconf (_SC_PHYS_PAGES);