diff -u a/configure b/configure
--- a/configure	2007-08-30 16:14:00 +0100
+++ b/configure	2007-08-30 16:15:50 +0100
@@ -39501,7 +39501,7 @@
 #     building shared libraries with linux.
 #
 case $host in
-  *-*-linux*)
+  *-*-freebsd*|*-*-linux*)
     G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD="`echo $G_THREAD_LIBS | sed s/-pthread/-lpthread/`"
     ;;
   *)
diff -u a/configure.in b/configure.in
--- a/configure.in	2007-07-16 19:57:18 +0100
+++ b/configure.in	2007-08-30 16:15:09 +0100
@@ -1949,9 +1949,10 @@
 # 
 #  a) GCC < 3.3 for Linux doesn't include -lpthread when
 #     building shared libraries with linux.
+#  b) FreeBSD doesn't do this either.
 #
 case $host in
-  *-*-linux*)
+  *-*-freebsd*|*-*-linux*)
     G_THREAD_LIBS_FOR_GTHREAD="`echo $G_THREAD_LIBS | sed s/-pthread/-lpthread/`"
     ;;
   *)