6674902 a lot of superfluous calls to clock_gettime if timed events is not used
6867692 libevent version needs to be updated to 1.4
--- stdcxx-4.2.1/etc/config/GNUmakefile.ph 2008-04-24 20:25:50.000000000 -0400
+++ stdcxx-4.2.1/etc/config/GNUmakefile.ph 2009-03-30 11:15:50.711606000 -0400
@@ -24,8 +24,17 @@
#
########################################################################
-include ../makefile.in
+arch := $(shell mach)
+
+ifeq ($(arch),sparc)
+ XREGS := -xregs=appl
+ XMEMALIGN := -xmemalign=8i
+else
+ XREGS := -xregs=no%frameptr
+ XMEMALIGN :=
+endif
+include ../makefile.in
########################################################################
# if PHDIR isn't set, don't try to build anything