The following reply was made to PR pkg/28800; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sven Hartge <hartge@ds9.argh.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: explorer@flame.org
Subject: Re: pkg/28800
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:47:19 +0100 (CET)

 Um 23:08 Uhr am 19.01.05 schrieb Sven Hartge:
 > Um 22:49 Uhr am 19.01.05 schrieb Sven Hartge:
  
 >> The bug (if it is a bug) must have been introduced sometime after "fri 
 >> dec 10 17:56:13 cet 2004", because some other box, also with netbsd-2-0 
 >> features a perl58 (compiled at said timestamp) _with_ pthread-support. 
 >> But: If I recompile perl on that system now, it also lacks 
 >> pthread-support.
  
 > I am sorry, the correct date would be "Jan 11 2005 17:32:03".
 
 OK, since this really is not my day, I have to admit: even after reverting 
 back to pkgsrc-2004Q4-base (and thus to perl-5.8.5nb6) perl gets compiled 
 w/o pthread-support.
 
 The only change I can think of to the one machine which once compiled a 
 threaded-perl is the change from version 2.0 to 2.0.1 of the kernel and 
 its userland.
 
 Sven, crawling back into his cave...