On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:53 PM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > > On 11/29/18 5:25 PM, enh wrote: > >> The question is, does it build/run on macos? If so, I could add a > >> compile-time > >> probe to build toybox sed if the host sed can't jump to a forward label and > >> stick it in the $PATH...) > > > > it builds, but if i try to build toybox with `export > > SED=~/toybox-gsed` i get bad generated files. flags.h, for example, > > only has the generic toybox stuff and is missing all the toys. > > likewise newtoys.h. (there are no error messages though.) > > Huh. Ok, _that_ is a bug and I should track down what's going on there. (Lemme > see if I can reproduce it on Linux, or if it's a macos thing. Actually, if you > built sed normally with gsed on the host, does the resulting toybox sed behave > properly? That's the "did I screw up the config" or "is the libc regex > behaving > differently".)
(i tried it on Linux just now, and it worked fine.) > (If the macos libc regex() is behaving differently, I'm not sure I can fix > that. > Might be able to work around it with a preprocessing wrapper though?) > > > oddly, `make test_sed` on macOS passes all the tests. (well, once i > > replace all the `sed` invocations in scripts/ with `gsed` so i can > > actually build the single tool.) > > Needs more tests then. > > > the good news, actually, is that for the toys i've been able to build, > > most of the tests pass. the exceptions are where the test relies on a > > decent sed/realpath/whatever, which isn't going to be true on the mac > > (we actually use python for that kind of thing in the NDK!), plus > > xargs' "too long" cases, which appear to be legitimately different on > > macOS. > > The xargs too long cases are a moving target on Linux. I roped you into that > conversation a few months back. :) > > Still Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
