On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:52:53AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/27/2018 03:47 AM, Rahul Gusai wrote: > > I am getting the following error while trying to compile the binaries for > > QEMU emulator. > > > > Your mailer corrupted line spacing, making it difficult to read. > > > *GEN qemu.1qemu.pod around line 95: Non-ASCII character seen before > > =encoding in 'Sch�tz.'. Assuming UTF-8POD document had syntax errors at > > /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.Makefile:297: recipe for target 'qemu.1' > > failedmake: *** [qemu.1] Error 255make: *** Deleting file 'qemu.1'* > > qemu.pod is a generated file; the version in my build tree starts out: > > =encoding UTF-8 > > and then uses proper UTF-8 encoding of line 95: > > by Tibor "TS" Schütz. > > > What could be the issue ? > > What do the following output in your setup: > > $ locale > $ grep =encoding qemu.pod > $ sed -n '92,98p' qemu.pod | od -tx1z > > I'm wondering if somehow you have a non-UTF-8 locale such that the > generated .pod file is encoded in a different locale, to the point that > pod2man then chokes on the file.
If that is the cause, it just reinforces that we should make our makefile set a sane LC_CTYPE for *every* command we invoke, not just the few places we set it for python. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|