https://bugs.gentoo.org/762778
--- a/Makefile.conf.in
+++ b/Makefile.conf.in
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ REQUIRED:=@REQUIRED@
 OS=@CONFIG_HOST@
 RANLIB:=@RANLIB@
 
+NM:=@NM@
+
 @ASPI_SUPPORT@
 @USE_DL_PLUGINS@
 @USE_APBUILD@
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ AC_PROG_LN_S
 AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 AC_PROG_YACC
+AC_CHECK_TOOL(NM, nm)
 dnl The bison problem
 if test -z "`echo $YACC | grep bison`" ; then
   AC_MSG_WARN( )
--- a/src/arch/linux/Makefile.main
+++ b/src/arch/linux/Makefile.main
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ emu.o: emu.c
 $(BINPATH)/bin/$(DOSBIN): emu.o $(LIBS_)
 	$(LD) $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(DOSBIN_LDFLAGS) -o $@ emu.o \
 	   -Wl,--whole-archive $(LIBS_) -Wl,--no-whole-archive $(LIBS)
-	@nm $(BINPATH)/bin/$(DOSBIN) | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$$\)\|\( a \)' | \
+	@$(NM) $(BINPATH)/bin/$(DOSBIN) | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$$\)\|\( a \)' | \
 		sort > $(BINPATH)/bin/dosemu.map
 	@ln -sf $(DOSBIN) $(BINPATH)/bin/dos
 ifdef X_SUPPORT
--- a/src/plugin/term/Makefile
+++ b/src/plugin/term/Makefile
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ SLANGLIB:=`relaytool --partial-map partial.map --relay slang \
 libslang.so.1-UTF8 libslang-utf8.so.1 libslang.so.1 $(SLANGLIB)`
 
 partial.map: $(OBJS)
-	nm $(OBJS) | LC_ALL=C grep SL | LC_ALL=C sort | LC_ALL=C uniq | \
+	$(NM) $(OBJS) | LC_ALL=C grep SL | LC_ALL=C sort | LC_ALL=C uniq | \
 	  LC_ALL=C sed -e 's/ *U \(SL[^_]*_[a-z0-9].*\)/F \1/' \
 	               -e 's/ *U \(SL[^_]*_[A-Z0-9].*\)/V \1/' > $@
 	echo 'F SLsmg_write_nwchars' >> $@