diff --git a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index a12bf1169e..0df98db7d8 100644
--- a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ if [ "$dl_path" = "" ] ; then
 	echo "SDK could not be set up. Relocate script unable to find ld-linux.so. Abort!"
 	exit 1
 fi
-executable_files=$($SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type f -perm /111)
+executable_files=$($SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type f -perm /111 -printf "'%h/%f' ")
 
 tdir=`mktemp -d`
 if [ x$tdir = x ] ; then
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ if [ $relocate = 1 ] ; then
 fi
 
 # replace ${SDKPATH} with the new prefix in all text files: configs/scripts/etc
-$SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type f -exec file '{}' \;|grep ":.*\(ASCII\|script\|source\).*text"|cut -d':' -f1|$SUDO_EXEC xargs sed -i -e "s:$DEFAULT_INSTALL_DIR:$target_sdk_dir:g"
+$SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type f -exec file '{}' \;|grep ":.*\(ASCII\|script\|source\).*text"|awk -F':' '{printf "%s\0", $1}'|$SUDO_EXEC xargs -0 sed -i -e "s:$DEFAULT_INSTALL_DIR:$target_sdk_dir:g"
 
 # change all symlinks pointing to ${SDKPATH}
 for l in $($SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type l); do