--- configure.in.orig	Wed Aug 27 10:04:54 2003
+++ configure.in	Wed Aug 27 10:10:50 2003
@@ -107,7 +107,16 @@
 AC_ARG_WITH(pthreads,
   AC_HELP_STRING([--with-pthreads],
                  [build Hugs using pthreads C library]),
-  [AC_DEFINE(DONT_PANIC) MTCFLAGS="-D_REENTRANT"; LIBS="$LIBS -lpthread"])
+  [AC_DEFINE(DONT_PANIC) MTCFLAGS="-D_REENTRANT"; 
+case $HostPlatform in
+  *-*-freebsd*)
+    LIBS="$LIBS -pthread"
+    ;;
+  *)
+    LIBS="$LIBS -lpthread"
+    ;;
+esac
+])
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(fptools,
   AC_HELP_STRING([--with-fptools=<dir>],