On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Brad Knowles wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> 	Okay, I think I've got NetBSD 1.6 installed, and now I'm trying 
> to gather together some programs I need for my testing.  One of the 
> programs I was trying to compile was postal-0.61 (see 
> <http://www.coker.com.au/postal/>), but it appears to require POSIX 
> threads.  Looking around in /usr/include, I can only find one header 
> file that mentions "thread" anywhere in its name, and it doesn't 
> appear to be what is needed.
> 
> 	Googling for "netbsd" and "pthread", I found some pages that have 
> pointed people at the mit-pthreads and unproven-pthreads packages in 
> /usr/pkgsrc/devel/.  However, neither of these packages appear to 
> build on NetBSD 1.6 for SPARC -- they both complain that:
> 
> 		configure: error: System type sparc--netbsdelf not recognized
> 		or not supported.
> 
> 
> 	Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix these problems?

you might look at devel/pth and devel/ptl2.

-dan