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      1 Because a working sed is a prerequisite for running the ``configure''
      2 script, I have provided the script ``bootstrap.sh'' which will attempt
      3 to build a version of sed adequate for running ``configure''.  If it
      4 fails, edit the ``config.h'' file that was created according to the
      5 comments found therein, and then try running ``bootstrap.sh'' again.
      6 
      7 The bootstrap build is quite likely to babble on and on with
      8 various compiler warnings.  You may want to tell bootstrap.sh
      9 how to invoke your compiler with warnings disabled.  For example,
     10 with a Bourne-like shell and gcc one could use:
     11   $ CC='gcc -w' sh bootstrap.sh
     12 or with a csh-like shell, one could try:
     13   % env CC='gcc -w' sh bootstrap.sh
     14 
     15 Once you get a working version of sed, temporarily install sed/sed
     16 somewhere in your $PATH, and then really re-build the normal way
     17 (starting with ``sh configure''); the bootstrap version is almost
     18 certainly more crippled than it needs to be on your machine.
     19 
     20 I don't much care to hear about any bugs in ``bootstrap'' versions
     21 of sed beyond those which actually keep the ``bootstrap'' version from
     22 building, or sed's configure script from running properly.  I am
     23 especially uninterested in compiler warnings from the bootstrap build.
     24