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Everything about this is cursed. IMO you should propose switching these
to EREs (-E) and fixing all of the escaped things as appropriate for
that switch, then substituting [[:space:]] in for \s to make them
compliant expressions.
>
> It does not work with BSD sed but when I replace this with gsed all works fine.
>
> BSD sed complalins about trailinig backslash:
>
> sed: 1: "s/^\(\s\+\)\(\.init_arr ...": RE error: trailing backslash (\)
>
> Is there a way to fix that part so it works both with GNU sed and BSD
> sed? The easiest way would be adding ${SEDCMD} set to "gsed" on BSD
> and "sed" for the others (macOS also seems to use gnu sed).
>
The ports infrastructure also has a BINARY_ALIAS that can be used to
install gsed as sed for just this build, assuming nothing that uses
these 'enhanced' expressions hardcodes a path to sed.
Thanks,
Kyle Evans
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