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