Add hints file for NeXT 3.3

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+# This file has been put together by Anno Siegel <siegel@zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
+# and Andreas Koenig <k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE>. Comments, questions, and
+# improvements welcome!
+#
+
+# These hints are intended for NeXT 3.3. If you're running the 3.3
+# "user" version of the NeXT OS, you should not change the malloc
+# related hints (USE_PERL_SBRK, HIDEMYMALLOC, usemymalloc). If you're
+# running the 3.3 "dev" version of the OS, I do not know what to
+# recommend (I have no 3.3 dev).
+ 
+# 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
+# seemed pretty obvious that we had to work around an malloc bug in 3.2.
+# This hints file reflects a patch to perl5.002_01 that introduces a
+# 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
+
+ccflags='-DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -DUSE_PERL_SBRK -DHIDEMYMALLOC'
+POSIX_cflags='ccflags="-posix $ccflags"'
+ldflags='-u libsys_s'
+libswanted='dbm gdbm db'
+
+lddlflags='-r'
+# Give cccdlflags an empty value since Configure will detect we are
+# using GNU cc and try to specify -fpic for cccdlflags.
+cccdlflags=' '
+
+i_utime='undef'
+groupstype='int'
+direntrytype='struct direct'
+d_strcoll='undef'
+
+# the simple program `for ($i=1;$i<38771;$i++){$t{$i}=123}' fails
+# with Larry's malloc on NS 3.2 due to broken sbrk()
+######################################################################
+#    above comment should stay here, but is not longer of importance #
+# with -DUSE_PERL_SBRK and -DHIDEMYMALLOC we can now say 'yes' to    #
+# usemymalloc. We call this hintsfile next_3_2.sh, so folks with 3.3 #
+# can decide what they prefer. Actually folks with 3.3 "user" version#
+# will also need this hintsfile, but how can I discern which 3.3 it  #
+# is?                                                                #
+######################################################################
+usemymalloc='y'
+
+d_uname='define'
+d_setpgid='define'
+d_setsid='define'
+d_tcgetpgrp='define'
+d_tcsetpgrp='define'
+
+#
+# On some NeXT machines, the timestamp put by ranlib is not correct, and
+# this may cause useless recompiles.  Fix that by adding a sleep before
+# running ranlib.  The '5' is an empirical number that's "long enough."
+#
+ranlib='sleep 5; /bin/ranlib' 
+
+
+#
+# There where reports that the compiler on HPPA machines
+# fails with the -O flag on pp.c.
+#
+if [ `arch` = "hppa" ]; then
+pp_cflags='optimize="-g"'
+fi