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+# hints/netbsd.sh
+#
+# Please check with packages@netbsd.org before making modifications
+# to this file.
+
+case "$archname" in
+'')
+    archname=`uname -m`-${osname}
+    ;;
+esac
+
+# NetBSD keeps dynamic loading dl*() functions in /usr/lib/crt0.o,
+# so Configure doesn't find them (unless you abandon the nm scan).
+# Also, NetBSD 0.9a was the first release to introduce shared
+# libraries.
+#
+case "$osvers" in
+0.9|0.8*)
+	usedl="$undef"
+	;;
+*)
+	case `uname -m` in
+	pmax)
+		# NetBSD 1.3 and 1.3.1 on pmax shipped an `old' ld.so,
+		# which will not work.
+		case "$osvers" in
+		1.3|1.3.1)
+			d_dlopen=$undef
+			;;
+		esac
+		;;
+	esac
+	if test -f /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so; then
+		# ELF
+		d_dlopen=$define
+		d_dlerror=$define
+		cccdlflags="-DPIC -fPIC $cccdlflags"
+		lddlflags="--whole-archive -shared $lddlflags"
+		rpathflag="-Wl,-rpath,"
+		#
+		# Include the whole libgcc.a into the perl executable so
+		# that certain symbols needed by loadable modules built as
+		# C++ objects (__eh_alloc, __pure_virtual, etc.) will always
+		# be defined.
+		#
+		# XXX This should be obsoleted by gcc-3.0.
+		#
+		ccdlflags="-Wl,-whole-archive -lgcc -Wl,-no-whole-archive \
+			-Wl,-E $ccdlflags"
+	elif test -f /usr/libexec/ld.so; then
+		# a.out
+		d_dlopen=$define
+		d_dlerror=$define
+		cccdlflags="-DPIC -fPIC $cccdlflags"
+		lddlflags="-Bshareable $lddlflags"
+		rpathflag="-R"
+	else
+		d_dlopen=$undef
+		rpathflag=
+	fi
+	;;
+esac
+
+# netbsd had these but they don't really work as advertised, in the
+# versions listed below.  if they are defined, then there isn't a
+# way to make perl call setuid() or setgid().  if they aren't, then
+# ($<, $>) = ($u, $u); will work (same for $(/$)).  this is because
+# you can not change the real userid of a process under 4.4BSD.
+# netbsd fixed this in 1.3.2.
+case "$osvers" in
+0.9*|1.[012]*|1.3|1.3.1)
+	d_setregid="$undef"
+	d_setreuid="$undef"
+	;;
+esac
+
+# These are obsolete in any netbsd.
+d_setrgid="$undef"
+d_setruid="$undef"
+
+# there's no problem with vfork.
+usevfork=true
+
+# This is there but in machine/ieeefp_h.
+ieeefp_h="define"
+
+# This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure 
+# after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads. 
+cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU' 
+case "$usethreads" in 
+$define|true|[yY]*) 
+	lpthread=
+	for xxx in pthread; do
+		for yyy in $loclibpth $plibpth $glibpth dummy; do
+			zzz=$yyy/lib$xxx.a
+			if test -f "$zzz"; then
+				lpthread=$xxx
+				break;
+			fi
+			zzz=$yyy/lib$xxx.so
+			if test -f "$zzz"; then
+				lpthread=$xxx
+				break;
+			fi
+			zzz=`ls $yyy/lib$xxx.so.* 2>/dev/null`
+			if test "X$zzz" != X; then
+				lpthread=$xxx
+				break;
+			fi
+		done
+		if test "X$lpthread" != X; then
+			break;
+		fi
+	done
+	if test "X$lpthread" != X; then
+		# Add -lpthread. 
+		libswanted="$libswanted $lpthread" 
+		# There is no libc_r as of NetBSD 1.5.2, so no c -> c_r.
+		# This will be revisited when NetBSD gains a native pthreads
+		# implementation.
+        else 
+		echo "$0: No POSIX threads library (-lpthread) found.  " \
+		     "You may want to install GNU pth.  Aborting." >&4 
+		exit 1 
+        fi
+	unset lpthread
+        ;; 
+esac 
+EOCBU
+
+# Set sensible defaults for NetBSD: look for local software in
+# /usr/pkg (NetBSD Packages Collection) and in /usr/local.
+#
+loclibpth="/usr/pkg/lib /usr/local/lib"
+locincpth="/usr/pkg/include /usr/local/include"
+case "$rpathflag" in
+'')
+	ldflags=
+	;;
+*)
+	ldflags=
+	for yyy in $loclibpth; do
+		ldflags="$ldflags $rpathflag$yyy"
+	done
+	;;
+esac