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Document problems with /bin/sh on Solaris 10

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* etc/PROBLEMS (Solaris): Document problems with '/bin/sh'.
Suggested by Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>.  (Bug#63067)
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@ -2688,6 +2688,15 @@ Emacs so that it isn't compiled with '-O5'.
We list bugs in current versions here. See also the section on legacy
systems.
*** On Solaris 10, running 'configure' with "/bin/sh" produces errors.
The "/bin/sh" shell on Solaris is an ancient and non-POSIX shell, so
we recommend not to use it. The Emacs 'configure' script should find
an appropriate shell and re-exec itself with that shell, unless you
force it to use "/bin/sh" by using "CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh" on the
'configure' command line. So either don't use CONFIG_SHELL, or, if
you'd rather pick the shell yourself, choose "/bin/bash" or "/bin/ksh"
or "/usr/xpg4/bin/sh" instead.
*** On Solaris 10 sparc, Emacs crashes during the build while saving state.
This was observed for Emacs 28.1 on Solaris 10 32-bit sparc, with
Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 (Sun C 5.15). The failure was intermittent,