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### Bootstrapping compiling the dependencies from scratch
-If using bundled dependencies is acceptable, the only thing required
+If using bundled dependencies is acceptable, the only things required
are a C++20 compiler with the libraries required by the language
standard (note that, e.g., in Debian `libstdc++-10-dev` is not a
-dependency of `clang`) and a Python3 interpreter. By default the bootstrap
-script uses the clang compiler. If you also want the bootstrap script to
-download the dependencies itself, `wget` is required as well.
+dependency of `clang`), a C compiler, and a Python3 interpreter. By
+default, the bootstrap script uses `c++` as C++ compiler and `cc` as C
+compiler. If you also want the bootstrap script to download the
+dependencies itself, `wget` is required as well.
In this case, the command is simply
```sh