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On 10/25/14 18:16, Henry Hu wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 2:38 PM, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In the process of building and trying textproc/meld, I discovered that
>> the lang/python27 configure process concludes, erroneously, that FreeBSD
>> does not support working Posix semaphores.  [...]
>> Can anyone explain to me how those lines affect the configure process?
>> And does either line belong in the Makefile at this point?    -- George
>>
>
> There is a config option called "SEM" which enables Posix sem support.
> By default it is enabled.

Thanks for the explanation.  I must have turned the option off at some
point in the past, but I don't remember doing it.            -- George