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@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@ Platform-Specific Configuration and Operation Notes
I have received word that adding -L/etc/lib (or the equivalent
-Wl,-L/etc/lib) might also be necessary, in addition to the -R/etc/lib.
+ On later versions of Solaris, it may be necessary to add -lnsl before
+ -ldl; statically-linked versions of bash using libnsl are not guaranteed
+ to work correctly on future versions of Solaris.
+
12. Configuring bash to build it in a cross environment. Currently only
two native versions can be compiled this way, cygwin32 and x86 BeOS.
For BeOS, you would configure it like this:
@@ -327,3 +331,7 @@ Platform-Specific Configuration and Operation Notes
16. Configure --disable-multibyte on NetBSD versions (1.4 through at least
1.6.1) that include wctype.h but do not define wctype_t.
+
+17. Do NOT use bison-1.75. It builds a non-working parser. The most
+ obvious effect is that constructs like "for i; do echo $i; done" don't
+ loop over the positional parameters.