On Thu, Oct 18, 2012, David Laight wrote:
> Why not pipe through tr -cd in order to remove anything not alphanumeric
> or sane punctuation.
Fully agree. It's just a version string. Any characters outside a
"safe" set should be filtered. Nothing fancy needed here.
> Although I suspect that the on
* On 18 Oct 2012, David Laight wrote:
> 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