SunOS 4.1.4 is working, too.

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@@ -592,6 +592,22 @@ symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random.
 It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
 Perl!), available from L<http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/>.
 
+=head1 SunOS 4.x
+
+In SunOS 4.x you most probably want to use the SunOS ld, /usr/bin/ld,
+since the more recent versions of GNU ld (like 2.13) do not seem to
+work for building Perl anymore.  When linking the extensions, the
+GNU ld gets very unhappy and spews a lot of errors like this
+
+  ... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
+
+and dies.  Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the
+ld to be /usr/bin/ld.
+
+As of Perl 5.8.1 the dynamic loading of libraries (DynaLoader, XSLoader)
+also seems to have become broken in in SunOS 4.x.  Therefore the default
+is to build Perl statically.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 The original was written by Andy Dougherty F<doughera@lafayette.edu>