NetBSD for Sparc (at least 1.5.3 and 1.6.1) seem to have

broken SysV semaphores.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20539

diff --git a/hints/netbsd.sh b/hints/netbsd.sh
index 02d730f..50f19da 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/netbsd.sh
+++ b/hints/netbsd.sh
@@ -174,3 +174,8 @@ EOF
     ;;
 esac
 
+# One is able to create semaphores, but not do anything much with them.
+# This is seen at least in NetBSD 1.5.3 and 1.6.1 for sparc.
+case `uname -m` in
+sparc) d_sem='undef' ;;
+esac