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  On some systems (NetBSD, FreeBSD, AIX 4.1, and Mach10), `configure'
may fail to properly create the Makefiles. Instead, you get an error
which looks something like this:

     prompt$ ./configure
     ...
     creating Makefile
     sed: 1: "\\@^ac_include make/pat ...": \ can not be used as a string delimiter

  So far as I know, the bug here is in `/bin/sh' on these systems. I
don't have access to a machine running any of them, so if someone can
find a workaround that avoids the quoting bug, I'd be most grateful.
(Search for `ac_include' in the `configure' script to get to the
problematic code.)

  It should work to run `bash configure', instead of using `/bin/sh'.
You can get Bash from <ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu> and mirrors.

  Another possible cause (reported for NeXT) is a bug in the `sed'
command.  In that case the error may look like this:

     Unrecognized command: \@^ac_include make/paths.make@r make/paths.make

  In this case, installing GNU `sed' should solve the problem.  You can
get GNU `sed' from the same places as Bash.