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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-09-12 03:03:17 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-09-12 03:03:17 +0000
commite3f9004a9cbdbe5f61eebdfb031db03bf3db9f2e (patch)
treea048c0ed3222052dd3c53924e82efcf72a3af304 /hints
parentf7fcae6b2e1f56a4b37042deed9e2d011631b8d4 (diff)
downloadperl-e3f9004a9cbdbe5f61eebdfb031db03bf3db9f2e.tar.gz
More comments for the FreeBSD threads hints.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21191
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diff --git a/hints/freebsd.sh b/hints/freebsd.sh
index 0ded431ac2..396abdd4d9 100644
--- a/hints/freebsd.sh
+++ b/hints/freebsd.sh
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ EOM
exit 1
fi
case "$osvers" in
+ # 500016 is the first osreldate in which one could
+ # just link against libc_r without disposing of libc
+ # at the same time. 500016 ... up to whatever it was
+ # on the 31st of August 2003 can still be used with -pthread,
+ # but it is not necessary.
5.*) if [ `/sbin/sysctl -n kern.osreldate` -lt 500016 ]; then
ldflags="-pthread $ldflags"
fi