From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:15:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Future-proof the FreeBSD hints - assume that FreeBSD 8, 9 etc behave
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Future-proof the FreeBSD hints - assume that FreeBSD 8, 9 etc behave
like 7, not 6 and earlier.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@34546
---

diff --git a/hints/freebsd.sh b/hints/freebsd.sh
index f246bff..7d543be 100644
--- a/hints/freebsd.sh
+++ b/hints/freebsd.sh
@@ -211,15 +211,7 @@ EOM
 	      exit 1
 	      ;;
 
-	7.*)
-	      # 7.x doesn't install libc_r by default, and Configure
-	      # would fail in the code following
-	      #
-	      # gethostbyaddr_r() appears to have been implemented in 6.x+
-	      ldflags="-pthread $ldflags"
-	      ;;
-
-	*)
+	[3-5].*)
 	      if [ ! -r "$lc_r" ]; then
 	      cat <<EOM >&4
 POSIX threads should be supported by FreeBSD $osvers --
@@ -251,6 +243,14 @@ EOM
 	      d_gethostbyaddr_r_proto="0"
 	      ;;
 
+	*)
+	      # 7.x doesn't install libc_r by default, and Configure
+	      # would fail in the code following
+	      #
+	      # gethostbyaddr_r() appears to have been implemented in 6.x+
+	      ldflags="-pthread $ldflags"
+	      ;;
+
 	esac
 
         case "$osvers" in