diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index e575231129..b21b191d25 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1058,10 +1058,6 @@ if compiler.has_header('alloca.h')
   libgit_c_args += '-DHAVE_ALLOCA_H'
 endif
 
-if compiler.has_header('sys/sysinfo.h')
-  libgit_c_args += '-DHAVE_SYSINFO'
-endif
-
 # Windows has libgen.h and a basename implementation, but we still need our own
 # implementation to threat things like drive prefixes specially.
 if host_machine.system() == 'windows' or not compiler.has_header('libgen.h')
@@ -1267,6 +1263,10 @@ if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
   endif
 endif
 
+if compiler.has_member('struct sysinfo', 'totalram', prefix: '#include <sys/sysinfo.h>')
+  libgit_c_args += '-DHAVE_SYSINFO'
+endif
+
 if compiler.has_member('struct stat', 'st_mtimespec.tv_nsec', prefix: '#include <sys/stat.h>')
   libgit_c_args += '-DUSE_ST_TIMESPEC'
 elif not compiler.has_member('struct stat', 'st_mtim.tv_nsec', prefix: '#include <sys/stat.h>')