Re: sed & awk on macOS

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2019-05-03 at 14:20 BST, Jan Danielsson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    For the past few years I've done the following on my macOS systems:
> 
>    1) bootstrap pkgsrc
>    2) build textproc/nbsed
>    3) build lang/nawk
>    4) Add the following to ~/pkg/etc/mk.conf:
>       TOOLS_PLATFORM.awk?=/Users/jan/pkg/bin/nawk
>       TOOLS_PLATFORM.sed?=/Users/jan/pkg/bin/nbsed
> 
>    If I don't do this then a few of the packages I use won't build; I
> get those typical "invalid sequence" errors.
> 
>    Can we make nawk and nbsed permanent parts of the infrastructure in
> pkgsrc on macOS?

We already do this, but between 10.8 and 10.13 inclusively.  I'll just
do it globally to stop us from having to keep tracking new releases.

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