On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Todd Vierling wrote:

: For the long term, this should be fixed by submitting a change to libtool's
: acinclude.m4, so that packages will begin picking it up.  On *BSD, at least,
: sysctl is good enough and can be set up that way in libtool directly.
: Libtool's autoconf fragment should be smart enough to know that (and already
: has some OS-specific settings of that value built in).

FYI, a patch was submitted to the libtool maintainers and accepted that will
pull the correct value from the kernel for {Net,Free,Open}BSD and Darwin
automatically, skipping the long delay.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>