Re: Strip whitespace from EXTRAVERSION?

[Juergen Salk]

* Måns Rullgård <mru@xxxxxx> [040406 20:23]:

> good idea in case the EXTRAVERSION should contain shell
> meta-characters.  Why anyone would do such a thing is beyond my
> imagination, ... 

I concur. But you don't even need meta-characters to mess up the
whole system with a badly or just carelessly formatted
EXTRAVERSION. 

Imagine what may happen with something like:

EXTRAVERSION = -foo / # my homebrew -foo kernel

Maybe somewhat far-fetched ...

> ... but who knows?

True.

Best regards - Juergen

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