--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@
   eval "export $find_tool_envvar"
 }
 
-# Find sha1sum, named gsha1sum on MacPorts.
-find_tool SHA1SUM sha1sum gsha1sum
+# Find sha1sum, named gsha1sum on MacPorts, and shasum on MacOS 10.6.
+find_tool SHA1SUM sha1sum gsha1sum shasum
 
 # Override the default configuration, if necessary.
 # Make sure that bootstrap.conf is sourced from the current directory
@@ -314,10 +314,20 @@
   $app --version >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
 
   $app --version 2>&1 |
-  sed -n 's/[^0-9.]*\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[.a-z0-9-]*\).*/\1/p
+  sed -n '# extract version within line
+          s/.*[v ]\{1,\}\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[.a-z0-9-]*\).*/\1/
+          t done
+
+          # extract version at start of line
+          s/^\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[.a-z0-9-]*\).*/\1/
           t done
+
           d
+
           :done
+          #the following essentially does s/5.005/5.5/
+          s/\.0*\([1-9]\)/.\1/g
+          p
           q'
 }