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diff --git a/hints/machten.sh b/hints/machten.sh
index 55feadcfb7..380f70261d 100644
--- a/hints/machten.sh
+++ b/hints/machten.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# machten.sh
-# This is for MachTen 4.0.3. It might work on other versions too.
+# This is for MachTen 4.0.3. It might work on other versions and variants too.
#
-# MachTen users might need a fixed tr from ftp.tenon.com. This should
-# be described in the MachTen release notes.
+# Users of earlier MachTen versions might need a fixed tr from ftp.tenon.com.
+# This should be described in the MachTen release notes.
#
# MachTen 2.x has its own hint file.
#
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
# Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com>
# Richard Yeh <rcyeh@cco.caltech.edu>
#
+# Raise perl's stack size -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@tcp.ip.lu> 970922
# Reinstate sigsetjmp iff version is 4.0.3 or greater; use nm
# (assumes Configure change); prune libswanted -- Dominic Dunlop 970113
# Warn about test failure due to old Berkeley db -- Dominic Dunlop 970105
@@ -24,9 +25,6 @@
#
# MachTen 4.X does support dynamic loading, but perl doesn't
# know how to use it yet.
-#
-# Updated by Dominic Dunlop <domo@tcp.ip.lu>
-# Tue Jan 14 10:17:18 WET 1997
# Power MachTen is a real memory system and its standard malloc
# has been optimized for this. Using this malloc instead of Perl's
@@ -36,6 +34,11 @@ usemymalloc='false'
# Make symbol table listings les voluminous
nmopts=-gp
+# Increase perl's stack size. Without this, lib/complex.t crashes out.
+# Particularly perverse programs may require that perl has an even larger
+# stack allocation than that specified here. (See man setstackspace )
+ldflags='-Xlstack=0x014000'
+
# Install in /usr/local by default
prefix='/usr/local'