--- IO-AIO/Makefile.PL	2005/07/31 19:04:45	1.4
+++ IO-AIO/Makefile.PL	2005/08/30 15:45:10	1.7
@@ -4,7 +4,25 @@
 
 require "autoconf.pm";
 
-autoconf::run_script();
+if ($^O =~ /freebsd/i) {
+   print <<EOF;
+
+This package seems to deadlock under FreeBSD. As documentation on FreeBSD
+threading is sorely lacking and confusing, I'll just call FreeBSD broken
+with regards to threading.
+
+If you get it to work, tell me how (maybe you need to specify magical link
+flags despite man pthread telling me otherwise, maybe yo need special
+library, maybe you need magical preprocessor symbols, maybe you need to
+recompile or re-link perl with threads enabled (a bad idea) - I have no
+idea, and I no longer care). Or maybe I do, but am frustrated about the
+continous "we are different=broken" attitude.
+
+EOF
+}
+
+autoconf::run_script()
+   and die "\nconfigure failed, check it's output above and autoconf/config.log\n\n";
 
 my $mm = MM->new({
     dist         => {