kconfig: fix update-po-config to accect backslash in input

sravnborg · sravnborg · commit 612c280ef240 · 2009-04-11T08:18:07.000+02:00
Massimo Maiurana reported (slightly edited):

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In latest 2.6.29 "make update-po-config" fails at msguniq invocation
with an "invalid control sequence" error.
The offending string is the following, and it's located in
drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig:72:

    "'\e[L' which are specific to the LCD, and a few ANSI codes. The"

looks to me like gettext expects strings in printf format, so in
this case it thinks "\e" is a control sequence but doesn't recognise
it as a valid one.

A valid solution would be to tell kxgettext to automatically
escape this kind of strings in the */config.pot he produces, so that
msguniq would not complain.
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This patch implements the suggested escaping.

Reported-by: Massimo Maiurana &lt;maiurana@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Massimo Maiurana &lt;maiurana@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c b/scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ static char *escape(const char* text, char *bf, int len)
 			++text;
 			goto next;
 		}
+		else if (*text == '\\') {
+			*bfp++ = '\\';
+			len--;
+		}
 		*bfp++ = *text++;
 next:
 		--len;
