--- configure.orig	Sun Jan  9 20:38:14 2000
+++ configure	Wed Feb  9 16:18:35 2000
@@ -1865,6 +1865,19 @@
       ELF_LINK_CMD="\$(ELF_LINK)\$(ELFLIB_MAJOR)"
     fi
     ;;
+  *freebsd* )
+    if [ $PORTOBJFORMAT = elf ]; then
+      ELF_CC="\$(CC)"
+      ELF_CFLAGS="\$(CFLAGS) -fPIC"
+      ELF_LINK="\$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname,\$(ELFLIB_MAJOR)"
+      ELF_LINK_CMD="\$(ELF_LINK)"
+    else
+      ELF_CC="\$(CC)"
+      ELF_CFLAGS="\$(CFLAGS) -fPIC"
+      ELF_LINK="ld -Bshareable -x"
+      ELF_LINK_CMD="\$(ELF_LINK)"
+    fi
+    ;;
   * )
     echo "Note: ELF compiler for host_os=$host_os may be wrong"
     ELF_CC="\$(CC)"
@@ -2181,16 +2194,8 @@
 
 echo $ac_n "checking SLANG_VERSION""... $ac_c" 1>&6
 echo "configure:2184: checking SLANG_VERSION" >&5
-slang_version=`grep "^#define  *SLANG_VERSION " $srcdir/src/slang.h |
-               awk '{ print $3 }'`
-slang_major_version=`echo $slang_version |
- awk '{ print int($1/10000) }'`
-slang_minor_version=`echo $slang_version $slang_major_version |
- awk '{ print int(($1 - $2*10000)/100) }'`
-slang_mminor_version=`echo $slang_version $slang_major_version $slang_minor_version |
- awk '{ print ($1 - $2*10000 - $3*100) }'`
-
-slang_minor_version="$slang_minor_version.$slang_mminor_version"
+slang_major_version=1
+slang_minor_version=4
 slang_version="$slang_major_version.$slang_minor_version"
 echo "$ac_t""$slang_version" 1>&6