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Use at your own risk. 109 110 111System-specific Notes 112--------------------- 113 114It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such 115that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work 116correctly. It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work. 117 118The standard /bin/sh on SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4 is broken and cannot be 119used to configure GNU make. Please install a different shell such as 120bash or pdksh in order to run "configure". See this message for more 121information: 122 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00190.html 123 124One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code 125to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and 126debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works 127properly on your system. 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