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diff --git a/hints/machten_2.sh b/hints/machten_2.sh
index 3e12a6fa05..c406a37df7 100644
--- a/hints/machten_2.sh
+++ b/hints/machten_2.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@
# March 5, 1997
#
# Locale, optimization, and malloc changes by Tom Phoenix Mar 15, 1997
+#
+# groupstype change and note about t/lib/findbin.t by Tom, Mar 24, 1997
+
+# MachTen's ability to have valid filepaths beginning with "//" may
+# be causing lib/FindBin.pm to fail. I don't know how to fix it, but
+# the reader is encouraged to do so! :-) -- Tom
# There seem to be some hard-to-diagnose problems under MachTen's
# malloc, so we'll use Perl's. If you have problems which Perl's
@@ -40,7 +46,13 @@ esac
# MachTen doesn't have secure setid scripts
d_suidsafe='undef'
-d_dosuid='define'
+case "$d_dosuid" in
+'') d_dosuid='define' ;;
+esac
+
+# groupstype should be gid_t, as near as I can tell, but it only
+# seems to work right when it's int.
+groupstype='int'
case "$optimize" in
'') optimize='-O2' ;;
@@ -79,4 +91,7 @@ Hmm...You had some extra variables I don't know about...I'll try to keep 'em.
Read the File::Find documentation for more information.
+It's possible that test t/lib/findbin.t will fail on some configurations
+of MachTen.
+
EOM