[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Generation of locales: made call to tr more robust
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Sun Nov 10 16:15:08 UTC 2013
On 10/11/13 11:17, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> Le 09/11/2013 14:47, Thomas De Schampheleire a écrit :
>>> Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>>> From: tbultel <tbultel at basystemes.fr>
>>>>
>>>> When calling 'tr' without quoting braces, bash can make really weird things
>>>> if there are existing 'single-letter-named' directories
>>>> eg:
>>>> tbultel at laois:~/test$ echo AAA | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
>>>> aaa
>>>> tbultel at laois:~/test$ echo AAA | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
>>>> AAA
>>>>
>>>> The (quick) analysis is that the callee (tr) argvs then
>>>> contain 'm' thus the translation does not work
>>>>
>>>> Using quotes works around it
>>>> tbultel at laois:~/test$ echo AAA | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
>>>> aaa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: tbultel <tbultel at basystemes.fr>
>>>
>>> This should be real name, not a username.
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Makefile | 2 +-
>>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>>>> index 1496bd7..7f835c0 100644
>>>> --- a/Makefile
>>>> +++ b/Makefile
>>>> @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ target-generatelocales: host-localedef
>>>> I18NPATH=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/share/i18n:/usr/share/i18n \
>>>> $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/localedef \
>>>> --prefix=$(TARGET_DIR) \
>>>> - --`echo $(BR2_ENDIAN) | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`-endian \
>>>> + --`echo $(BR2_ENDIAN) | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`-endian \
>>>> -i $${inputfile} -f $${charmap} \
>>>> $${locale} ; \
>>>> done
>>>
>>> While there's nothing wrong with your fix itself, I wonder why this isn't using the UPPERCASE and LOWERCASE macros we have defined in package/pkg-utils.mak...
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The LOWERCASE macro does not seem to exist
>>
>
> It should be straightforward to implement it based on the existing UPPERCASE macro. I justfind odd there'd be two ways of converting case. One with direct tr and the other with a make macro...
The UPPERCASE macro is actually really really ugly - it's only reason
of existing is that it's much faster than calling tr 40K times, which
would be required because UPPERCASE is called so often.
Bottom line: I think using tr for this one situation is a better idea
than adding another ugly lowercase macro.
Regards,
Arnout
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