hi,

> >   Yes, thanks, that fixes my problem (as it links httpd against
> > libpthread).
> 
> Ewww, big hammers.
> Could you provide more details about the abort you see? Like a gdb backtrace
> and stderr output?

  Certainly:

# /usr/local/sbin/httpd
Abort trap (core dumped)

# gdb /usr/local/sbin/httpd httpd.core
[loading symbols...]
(gdb) bt
#0  0xbdb160bb in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#1  0xbdb1801b in __libc_mutex_unlock () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#2  0xbdb9531d in __flockfile_internal () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#3  0xbdb6f19b in fgets () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#4  0x08083f07 in ap_cfg_getline ()
#5  0x08072c4b in ap_srm_command_loop ()
#6  0x080731bd in ap_process_resource_config ()
#7  0x080738a7 in ap_read_config ()
#8  0x0807c111 in main ()
#9  0x080503c6 in ___start ()

						yours,
						dillo