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diff --git a/README.boot b/README.boot deleted file mode 100644 index fd2d1a0..0000000 --- a/README.boot +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -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. |