On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:19 PM Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 2020-12-15 à 14:08, Sangeeta a écrit : > > The performance test, p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh[1], is failing on my > > local OSX machine due to an error in the test_export of the foo > > variable. [...] > > It is not the export per se that fails (that would be very bad news > indeed), it is the shell magic in the 'test_run_perf_' function in > 'perf-lib.sh' that uses a non-portable sed(1) invocation: > > As you might already know, since macOS has some BSD background/ancestry, > most POSIX utilities are closer to the OpenBSD/FreeBSD versions than to > their GNU/Linux counterparts. > > I do not know sed syntax enough to fix the invocation to make it > portable (nor do I know if it's possible). A patch fixing the problem (correctly diagnosed by Philippe as non-portable `sed` usage) has been posted[1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201216073907.62591-1-sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/