diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 7d6c0846eeafe4beddfea195c2fb9c6493095fe3..ca968eb8d8079f5fb32bc59d4de17e653c9b5753 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ else ()
     set(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME ${HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_DECL})
 endif ()
 set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES "")
+# According to `man 2 clockgettime` the glibc wrapper requires
+# -lrt on glibc versions before 2.17. We need to check whether
+# the function is available without -lrt to set this linker option
+# conditionally.
+check_function_exists(clock_gettime HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_WITHOUT_RT)
+
 check_symbol_exists(__get_cpuid cpuid.h HAVE_CPUID)
 
 # Checks for libev
diff --git a/src/lib/core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/lib/core/CMakeLists.txt
index e60b5199e15b8f45ad0abddd1b4ff7bf6884c9c2..8623aa0de9f65c3a5b5b86d0e0b0dc5b487cd0d1 100644
--- a/src/lib/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/lib/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -46,3 +46,11 @@ target_link_libraries(core salad small uri decNumber ${LIBEV_LIBRARIES}
 if (ENABLE_BACKTRACE AND NOT TARGET_OS_DARWIN)
     target_link_libraries(core gcc_s ${UNWIND_LIBRARIES})
 endif()
+
+# Since fiber.top() introduction, fiber.cc, which is part of core
+# library, depends on clock_gettime() syscall, so we should set
+# -lrt when it is appropriate. See a comment for
+# HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_WITHOUT_RT in ${REPO}/CMakeLists.txt.
+if ("${HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME}" AND NOT "${HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_WITHOUT_RT}")
+    target_link_libraries(core rt)
+endif()