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Re: [Qemu-devel] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 68. |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:57:24 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
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
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