Re: pkg/57970: pkgsrc textproc/nbsed is super old and doesn't support some things that modern seds support

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2024-02-28 at 20:07 GMT, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> > (ironically, macOS's system sed supports the "in-place" options, pkgsrc's macOS configuration apparently feels that it's better to use nbsed instead, *shrug*).
>
> We've had to use pkgsrc sed on macOS since Mountain Lion, as the native
> sed is broken with binary files or UTF-8 locales.  It would be great 
> if we had a contact at Apple who could fix this, so we no longer need 
> to bootstrap nbsed ;-)

That said, I just retried a fresh bootstrap on Sonoma and I'm not 
immediately seeing any fallout, so perhaps the bugs have finally been 
fixed.

You can switch to native either by amending pkgsrc/bootstrap/bootstrap 
around the "Since 10.9, native sed exits when ..." section and perform a 
fresh bootstrap, or modify an existing install by editing mk.conf to 
comment out the

  TOOLS_PLATFORM.awk=     /opt/pkg/bin/nawk
  TOOLS_PLATFORM.sed=     /opt/pkg/bin/nbsed

lines.

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