diff -urN shellutils-1.16/debian/rules shellutils-1.16.new/debian/rules
--- shellutils-1.16/debian/rules        Tue Aug 17 13:30:25 1999
+++ shellutils-1.16.new/debian/rules    Tue Aug 17 13:29:32 1999
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
        : # Do not include `su' on the Hurd.
        if [ x$(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM) = xgnu ] ; then rm $(d)/bin/su ; fi

+       if [ x$(DEB_BUILD_ARCH) = xsparc ] ; then \
+       install -m 644 debian/uname-sparc.1 \
+               debian/tmp/usr/man/man1/uname.1; \
+       fi
+
        : # Link for archaic shells
        ln -f $(d)/usr/bin/test $(d)/usr/bin/[
        ln -s test.1 $(d)/usr/man/man1/[.1
diff -urN shellutils-1.16/debian/uname-sparc.1 shellutils-1.16.new/debian/uname-sparc.1
--- shellutils-1.16/debian/uname-sparc.1        Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
+++ shellutils-1.16.new/debian/uname-sparc.1    Tue Aug 17 13:27:03 1999
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+.TH UNAME 1 "GNU Shell Utilities" "FSF" \" -*- nroff -*-
+.SH NAME
+uname \- print system information
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B uname
+[\-snrvma] [\-\-sysname] [\-\-nodename] [\-\-release]
+[\-\-machine] [\-\-all] [\-\-help] [\-\-version]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate
+or incomplete.  The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.
+.PP
+This manual page
+documents the GNU version of
+.BR uname .
+.B uname
+prints information about the machine and operating system it is run on.
+If no options are given,
+.B uname
+acts as if the
+.I \-s
+option
+were given.  If multiple options are given or the
+.I \-a
+option is given, the selected information is printed in the order
+`snrvm' with a space between items.
+.SS OPTIONS
+.TP
+.I "\-m, \-\-machine"
+Print the machine (hardware) type.
+.TP
+.I "\-n, \-\-nodename"
+Print the machine's network node hostname.
+.TP
+.I "\-r, \-\-release"
+Print the operating system release.
+.TP
+.I "\-s, \-\-sysname"
+Print the operating system name.
+.TP
+.I "\-v"
+Print the operating system version.
+.TP
+.I "\-a, \-\-all"
+Print all of the above information.
+.TP
+.I "\-\-help"
+Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
+.TP
+.I "\-\-version"
+Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
+.SH Debian/SPARC Specific Options
+.TP
+.I "FAKE_SPARC"
+This environment variable, when set to "yes" forces the uname machine
+output to "sparc". This is useful on Sparc 64 (UltraSPARC) systems when
+compiling in a 32bit user space (most sparc64 systems are 32bit user
+space running on a 64bit kernel). Most notably this will allow autoconf
+configure scripts to correctly identify the environment as "sparc" instead
+of "sparc64".
+.SH CAVEATS
+Linux terminology differs from that of traditional unix.  "Release"
+in uname refers to what Linux users call "Version", and "Version"
+reports build information.
diff -urN shellutils-1.16/src/uname.c shellutils-1.16.new/src/uname.c
--- shellutils-1.16/src/uname.c Tue Aug 17 13:30:25 1999
+++ shellutils-1.16.new/src/uname.c     Tue Aug 17 13:22:00 1999
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
   struct utsname name;
   int c;
   char processor[256];
+#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__linux__)
+  char *fake_sparc = getenv("FAKE_SPARC");
+#endif

   program_name = argv[0];
   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
@@ -167,6 +170,11 @@
     error (1, errno, _("cannot get processor type"));
 #else
   strcpy (processor, "unknown");
+#endif
+
+#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__linux__)
+  if (fake_sparc != NULL && (fake_sparc[0] == 'y' || fake_sparc[0] == 'Y'))
+    strcpy (name.machine, "sparc");
 #endif

   print_element (PRINT_SYSNAME, name.sysname);