I've been told that the FreeBSD shell has been fixed meanwhile.

Additionally, add the note from Vikas on patching Solaris to get
mutt work properly on that system.

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e8bdec5338759f5a81b94709611b29f12e2ffcd0..f2177ea36428a38289b3eaff7b1f722732596e5e 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ Solaris 2.4
        Use the --with-included-gettext configuration switch if you
        experience this problem.
 
-       Color does not work right with Solaris curses.  You will have to
-       compile with either ncurses or slang to get working color support.
+       Color does not work right with Solaris curses.  You will
+       have to compile with either ncurses or slang to get working
+       color support.
 
 Solaris 2.6
 
@@ -184,6 +185,11 @@ Solaris 2.6
        with the system regexp library.  Please use the --with-rx
        switch when configuring on this platform.
 
+       For the real fix, applying Sun patches # 105490-05 (linker
+       patch) and # 105210-17 (libc and malloc patch) from
+       sunsolve.sun.com has been reported to stop these problems
+       from occuring.
+
 Linux
 
        On recent Linux systems, flock() and fcntl() locks don't mix.  If
@@ -206,15 +212,4 @@ Digital Unix (OSF/1)
        Also, the system curses library is said to be badly broken.  Use
        GNU ncurses or SLang instead.
 
-
-FreeBSD 3.0
-
-       /bin/sh is broken on this platform.  You need the
-       "--with-exec-shell" configuration switch here; ksh and bash
-       are reported to be fine.
-
-       This may also be an issue with earlier FreeBSD
-       versions and other BSD systems.
-
-
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