--- ./configure.orig	2011-01-21 06:49:01.000000000 +0300
+++ ./configure	2012-10-22 12:27:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -5800,7 +5800,7 @@
     MAKEVER="freebsd"
     LDFLAGS="-lpmc"
     # HWPMC driver is available for FreeBSD >= 6
-    FREEBSD_VERSION=`uname -r | cut -c 1`
+    FREEBSD_VERSION=`uname -r | cut -d'.' -f1`
     if test "${FREEBSD_VERSION}" -lt 6 ; then
       as_fn_error "PAPI requires FreeBSD 6 or greater" "$LINENO" 5
     fi