From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:12:49 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: (Was Re: [PATCH] FreeBSD atoll() warning)
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(Was Re: [PATCH] FreeBSD atoll() warning)
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diff --git a/hints/freebsd.sh b/hints/freebsd.sh
index 8bfb742..38908fe 100644
--- a/hints/freebsd.sh
+++ b/hints/freebsd.sh
@@ -284,3 +284,12 @@ EOCBU
 case "$usemallocwrap" in
 '') usemallocwrap='define' ;;
 esac
+
+# XXX Under FreeBSD 6.0 (and probably most other similar versions)
+# Perl_die(NULL) generates a warning:
+#    pp_sys.c:491: warning: null format string
+# Configure supposedely tests for this, but apparently the test doesn't
+# work.  Volunteers with FreeBSD are needed to improving the Configure test.
+# Meanwhile, the following workaround should be safe on all versions
+# of FreeBSD.
+d_printf_format_null='undef'