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>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57970; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/57970: pkgsrc textproc/nbsed is super old and doesn't
 support some things that modern seds support
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:06:20 +0000

 * 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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