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From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Observations on ATK, PL6.
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Date: 17 Aug 90 21:33:40 GMT
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Excerpts from ext.andrew: 17-Aug-90 Re: Observations on ATK, PL6. Tom
Crockett@icase.edu (820+0)

> Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 16-Aug-90 Re: Observations on ATK,
> PL6. Fred Hansen@andrew.cmu.e (841+0)

>> Shell core dumps on Sparcs occur frequently due to a bug in Sun's
>> version of sh.  This is supposed to be fixed by Sun at some time.

> The usual workaround for this is to unsetenv all but your most essential
> environment variables before starting the make.  I have been successful
> in the past (haven't tried it with patch 6 yet) by eliminating
> everything except HOME, SHELL, USER, and PATH, and I set PATH to just
> /usr/ucb and /usr/bin.

ATK with patch 6 built for me with an unstripped environment on a
SparcStation-1 using SunOS 4.0.3c.

Bill