[libvirt] [PATCH glib] Don't set LC_ALL=C during build as that breaks python apps

Philipp Hahn hahn at univention.de
Tue Jul 25 16:16:49 UTC 2017


Hello,

Am 25.07.2017 um 14:07 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
> Setting LC_ALL=C breaks python apps doing I/O on UTF-8 source
> files. In particular this broke glib-mkenums
> 
>   GEN      libvirt-gconfig-enum-types.h
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/glib-mkenums", line 669, in <module>
>     process_file(fname)
>   File "/usr/bin/glib-mkenums", line 406, in process_file
>     line = curfile.readline()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 849: ordinal not in range(128)

What about using "C.UTF-8" instead, which us the same as "C" but with
"UTF-8" encoding?
Maybe ancient RedHat still doesn't know about it ...

Philipp




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