1 Platform-Specific Configuration Notes
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4 1. configure --without-gnu-malloc on:
11 all machines running SunOS YP code: SunOS4, SunOS5, HP/UX
16 other OSF/1 machines (KSR/1, HP, IBM AIX/ESA)
18 sparc SVR4, SVR4.2 (ICL reference port)
22 NetBSD/sparc (malloc needs 8-byte alignment; GNU malloc has 4-byte)
24 BSD/OS 2.1 if you want to use loadable builtins
26 If you are using GNU libc, especially on a linux system
28 (Configuring --without-gnu-malloc will still result in lib/malloc/libmalloc.a
29 being built and linked against, but there is only a stub file in the archive.)
31 2. configure using shlicc on BSD/OS 2.1 to use loadable builtins
33 3. Bash cannot be built in a directory separate from the source directory
34 using configure --srcdir=... unless the version of `make' you're using
35 does $VPATH handling right. The SunOS make, for one, does not seem to
36 do it right. The script support/mkclone can be used to create a
37 `build tree' using symlinks to get around this.
39 4. I've had reports that username completion does not work on IRIX 5.3
40 when linking with -lnsl. This is only a problem when you're running
41 NIS. Editing the Makefile after configure runs and removing the
42 `-lnsl' from the assignment to `LIBS' fixes the problem.