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diff --git a/hints/next_3.sh b/hints/next_3.sh
index d667ca2..829d273 100644
--- a/hints/next_3.sh
+++ b/hints/next_3.sh
@@ -6,34 +6,6 @@
 # special hint file.
 #
 
-ccflags='-DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -DUSE_PERL_SBRK -DHIDEMYMALLOC'
-ldflags='-u libsys_s'
-libswanted='dbm gdbm db'
-
-lddlflags='-nostdlib -r'
-# Give cccdlflags an empty value since Configure will detect we are
-# using GNU cc and try to specify -fpic for cccdlflags.
-cccdlflags=' '
-
-#
-# Change the line below if you do not want to build 'quad-fat'
-# binaries
-#
-archs=`/bin/lipo -info /usr/lib/libm.a | sed 's/^[^:]*:[^:]*: //'`
-for d in  $archs
-do
-       mab="$mab -arch $d"
-done
-
-
-archname='next-fat'
-ld='cc'
-
-i_utime='undef'
-groupstype='int'
-direntrytype='struct direct'
-d_strcoll='undef'
-
 ######################################################################
 # THE MALLOC STORY
 ######################################################################
@@ -44,6 +16,7 @@ d_strcoll='undef'
 # setting usemymalloc='n' was the solution back then. Later came
 # reports that perl would run unstable on 3.2:
 #
+# 1996:
 # From about perl5.002beta1h perl became unstable on the
 # NeXT. Intermittent coredumps were frequent on 3.2 OS. There were
 # reports, that the developer version of 3.3 didn't have problems, so it
@@ -52,17 +25,87 @@ d_strcoll='undef'
 # home made sbrk routine (remember, NeXT's sbrk _never_ worked). This
 # sbrk makes it possible to run perl with its own malloc. Thanks to
 # Ilya who showed me the way to his sbrk for OS/2!!
-# andreas koenig, 1996-06-16
 #
-# So, this hintsfile is using perl's malloc. If you want to turn perl's
-# malloc off, you need to change remove '-DUSE_PERL_SBRK' and 
-# '-DHIDEMYMALLOC' from the ccflags above and set usemymalloc below
-# to 'n'.
+# The whole malloc desaster lead to a failing gdbm test. It is far
+# beyond my understanding, why GDBM_File breaks with the "fix", but in
+# general I consider it better to have a working perl with broken GDBM
+# than no perl at all.
+#
+# So, this hintsfile is using perl's malloc. If you want to turn
+# perl's malloc off, you need to remove '-DUSE_PERL_SBRK' and
+# '-DHIDEMYMALLOC' from the ccflags and set usemymalloc to 'n'.
+#
+# 1997:
+# From perl5.003_22 the malloc bug has no impact any more. We can run
+# a perl without a special sbrk. Apparently Chip Salzenberg, the hero
+# of 5.004 anyway, earned another trophy during Australien Open.
+#
+# use the following two lines to enable USE_PERL_SBRK. Try this if you
+# encounter intermittent core dumps:
+#ccflags='-DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -DUSE_PERL_SBRK -DHIDEMYMALLOC'
+#usemymalloc='y'
+# use the following two lines if you have perl5.003_22 or better and
+# do not encounter intermittent core dumps.
+
+ccflags='-DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE'
+usemymalloc='n'
+
+######################################################################
+# End of the MALLOC story
+######################################################################
+
+ldflags='-u libsys_s'
+libswanted='dbm gdbm db'
+
+lddlflags='-nostdlib -r'
+# Give cccdlflags an empty value since Configure will detect we are
+# using GNU cc and try to specify -fpic for cccdlflags.
+cccdlflags=' '
+
+######################################################################
+# MAB support
+######################################################################
+# By default we will build for all architectures your development
+# environment supports. If you only want to build for the platform
+# you are on, simply comment or remove the line below.
+#
+# If you want to build for specific architectures, change the line
+# below to something like
 #
+#	archs=(m68k i386)
+#
+archs=`/bin/lipo -info /usr/lib/libm.a | sed 's/^[^:]*:[^:]*: //'`
+
+#
+# leave the following part alone
+#
+archcount=`echo $archs |wc -w`
+if [ $archcount -gt 1 ]
+then
+	for d in $archs
+	do
+			mabflags="$mabflags -arch $d"
+	done
+	ccflags="$ccflags $mabflags"
+	ldflags="$ldflags $mabflags"
+	lddlflags="$lddlflags $mabflags"
+	archname='next-fat'
+fi
+######################################################################
+# END MAB support
 ######################################################################
-usemymalloc='y'
+ld='cc'
 
+i_utime='undef'
+groupstype='int'
+direntrytype='struct direct'
+d_strcoll='undef'
 d_uname='define'
+#
+# At least on m68k there are situations when memcmp doesn't behave
+# as expected.  So we'll use perl's memcmp.
+#
+d_sanemcmp='undef'
 # setpgid() is in the posix library, but we don't use -posix, so
 # we don't see it.  ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs  *does* use -posix, so
 # setpgid is still available as POSIX::setpgid.