diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 71e0afb389..d583a99e9d 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ There are some failures which are not directly related to the GNU libc:
   the test cases in the math subdirectory will fail.  Linux 2.2 has
   fixes for the floating point support on Alpha.  The Linux/SPARC kernel has
   also some bugs in the FPU emulation code (as of Linux 2.2.0).
+- Other tools might have problems.  For example bash 2.03 gives a
+  segmentation fault running the tst-rpmatch.sh test script.
 
 
 1.17.	What is symbol versioning good for?  Do I need it?
diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in
index b593dcc5d9..2c811c857f 100644
--- a/FAQ.in
+++ b/FAQ.in
@@ -319,6 +319,8 @@ There are some failures which are not directly related to the GNU libc:
   the test cases in the math subdirectory will fail.  Linux 2.2 has
   fixes for the floating point support on Alpha.  The Linux/SPARC kernel has
   also some bugs in the FPU emulation code (as of Linux 2.2.0).
+- Other tools might have problems.  For example bash 2.03 gives a
+  segmentation fault running the tst-rpmatch.sh test script.
 
 ??	What is symbol versioning good for?  Do I need it?
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 701b58487e..ef3e95819d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ echo "configure:1273: checking version of $CC" >&5
   ac_prog_version=`$CC -v 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*version \([egcygnustp-]*[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
-    egcs-2.9[1-9].*|egcs-2.90.2[789]|egcs-2.90.[3-9][0-9]|pgcc-2.9[1-9].*|pgcc-2.90.2[789]|pgcc-2.90.[3-9][0-9]|*2.8.[1-9]*|*2.9|*2.9.[0-9]*|cygnus-2.9[1-9].*)
+    egcs-2.9[1-9].*|egcs-2.90.2[789]|egcs-2.90.[3-9][0-9]|*gcc-2.9[1-9].*|pgcc-2.90.2[789]|pgcc-2.90.[3-9][0-9]|*2.8.[1-9]*|*2.9|*2.9.[0-9]*|cygnus-2.9[1-9].*|gcc-2.9[5-9]|gcc-2.1[0-9][0-9])
        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;