diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9f64552..5f333bf 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@
 
 # Avoid funny character set dependencies
 unexport LC_ALL
-LC_CTYPE=C
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LC_NUMERIC=C
-export LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_NUMERIC
+export LC_COLLATE LC_NUMERIC
 
 # We are using a recursive build, so we need to do a little thinking
 # to get the ordering right.
diff --git a/arch/sh/tools/Makefile b/arch/sh/tools/Makefile
index 558a56b..2082af1 100644
--- a/arch/sh/tools/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sh/tools/Makefile
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 include/generated/machtypes.h: $(src)/gen-mach-types $(src)/mach-types
 	@echo '  Generating $@'
 	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(Q)$(AWK) -f $^ > $@ || { rm -f $@; /bin/false; }
+	$(Q)LC_ALL=C $(AWK) -f $^ > $@ || { rm -f $@; /bin/false; }
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 0fe48cd..f9bdf26 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -219,8 +219,13 @@
 	fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F);					\
 	dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size + $$fsize);				\
 done;									\
-printf "%08x" $$dec_size |						\
-	sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\\\\x\4\\\\x\3\\\\x\2\\\\x\1/g'	\
+printf "%08x\n" $$dec_size |						\
+	sed 's/\(..\)/\1 /g' | {					\
+		read ch0 ch1 ch2 ch3;					\
+		for ch in $$ch3 $$ch2 $$ch1 $$ch0; do			\
+			printf '%s%03o' '\\' $$((0x$$ch)); 		\
+		done;							\
+	}								\
 )
 
 quiet_cmd_bzip2 = BZIP2   $@