--- IO-AIO/Makefile.PL	2005/07/31 18:14:48	1.3
+++ IO-AIO/Makefile.PL	2006/02/01 23:43:17	1.8
@@ -4,7 +4,23 @@
 
 require "autoconf.pm";
 
-autoconf::run_script();
+if ($^O =~ /freebsd/i) {
+   print <<EOF;
+
+This package seems to deadlock or otherwise misbehave under FreeBSD. As
+documentation on FreeBSD threading is sorely lacking and confusing, I'll
+just call FreeBSD broken with regards to threading.
+
+If you find out whats wrong, please tell me.
+
+Some people had luck with using OPTIMIZE=-O instead of -O2, so you might
+want to try that.
+
+EOF
+}
+
+autoconf::run_script()
+   and die "\nconfigure failed, check it's output above and autoconf/config.log\n\n";
 
 my $mm = MM->new({
     dist         => {
@@ -15,6 +31,7 @@
     NAME         => "IO::AIO",
     VERSION_FROM => "AIO.pm",
     LIBS         => ['-lpthread -lrt', '-lpthread', '-lpthreads', ''],
+    clean        => { FILES => "autoconf/config.h autoconf/config.log autoconf/config.status" },
 });
 
 $mm->flush;