The following FreeBSD ports and packages may be useful: databases/db Berkeley DB2 databases/gdbm GNU Database Manager devel/autoconf GNU Autoconf devel/libtool GNU Autoconf devel/gdb GNU Debugger lang/egcs EGCS enhanced GNU C Suite security/tcp_wrappers TCP Wrappers FreeBSD 3.0 no special options FreeBSD 2.2.5 (and prior?) requires --without-yielding-select or --without-threads