From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:03:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More comments for the FreeBSD threads hints.
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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 0ded431..396abdd 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