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| 1 | Because a working sed is a prerequisite for running the ``configure'' | 
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| 2 | script, I have provided the script ``bootstrap.sh'' which will attempt | 
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| 3 | to build a version of sed adequate for running ``configure''.  If it | 
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| 4 | fails, edit the ``config.h'' file that was created according to the | 
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| 5 | comments found therein, and then try running ``bootstrap.sh'' again. | 
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| 6 |  | 
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| 7 | The bootstrap build is quite likely to babble on and on with | 
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| 8 | various compiler warnings.  You may want to tell bootstrap.sh | 
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| 9 | how to invoke your compiler with warnings disabled.  For example, | 
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| 10 | with a Bourne-like shell and gcc one could use: | 
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| 11 | $ CC='gcc -w' sh bootstrap.sh | 
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| 12 | or with a csh-like shell, one could try: | 
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| 13 | % env CC='gcc -w' sh bootstrap.sh | 
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| 15 | Once you get a working version of sed, temporarily install sed/sed | 
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| 16 | somewhere in your $PATH, and then really re-build the normal way | 
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| 17 | (starting with ``sh configure''); the bootstrap version is almost | 
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| 18 | certainly more crippled than it needs to be on your machine. | 
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| 20 | I don't much care to hear about any bugs in ``bootstrap'' versions | 
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| 21 | of sed beyond those which actually keep the ``bootstrap'' version from | 
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| 22 | building, or sed's configure script from running properly.  I am | 
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| 23 | especially uninterested in compiler warnings from the bootstrap build. | 
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