%general-entities; ]> Bc Change an internal script to use sed instead of ed: cat > bc/fix-libmath_h << "EOF" #! /bin/bash sed -e '1 s/^/{"/' \ -e 's/$/",/' \ -e '2,$ s/^/"/' \ -e '$ d' \ -i libmath.h sed -e '$ s/$/0}/' \ -i libmath.h EOF Prepare Bc for compilation: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --with-readline \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --infodir=/usr/share/info Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: echo "quit" | ./bc/bc -l Test/checklib.b Install the package: make install Installed programs bc, dc Short Descriptions bc is a command line calculator bc dc is a reverse-polish command line calculator dc