Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15

From: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Date: Oct 16, 2024, 06:02 UTC
Message-ID: <D4X03LIWX1C0.1RGNH9U3SMF51@jamesliu.io>
In-Reply-To: <1daadd82766a59577580dc386b91a942b0df6e15.1728992306.git.ps@pks.im>

On Tue Oct 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM AEDT, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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> Two of our tests in t3404 use indented HERE docs where leading tabs on
> some of the lines are actually relevant. The tabs do get removed though,
> and we try to fix this up by using sed(1) to replace leading tabs in the
> actual output, as well. But macOS 10.15 uses an oldish version of sed(1)
> that has BSD lineage, which does not understand "\t", and thus we fail
> to strip those leading tabs and fail the test.

The subtle differences in BSD and GNU-sed have caused me some headache in the past. I always work around the problem locally by installing the `gnu-sed` package via Homebrew, but it's better to change the test here.