On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:57:52PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> > Does anyone else think this is problematic? I could redo it in C if
> > it's a widespread concern.
>
> As you're offering, I think that would be preferable :-)
Actually even C programs are a PITA if you are trying to crossbuild.
At the very least, they require special attention.
Why not pipe through tr -cd in order to remove anything not alphanumeric
or sane punctuation.
Although I suspect that the only problem character is ".
The more you can avoid in build tools, the better.
Even assuming a working awk, or some obscure grep options/variant
can be a problem, never mind monsters like perl and python.
David
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