280600 – sys-libs/db creates localized strings in /usr/include/db.h; this prevents emerging python-3.1

Bug 280600 - sys-libs/db creates localized strings in /usr/include/db.h; this prevents emerging python-3.1

Summary: sys-libs/db creates localized strings in /usr/include/db.h; this prevents eme...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 280001

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2009-08-06 20:15 UTC by Vasiliy L. Olekhov
Modified:	2009-08-06 21:16 UTC (History)
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Description Vasiliy L. Olekhov 2009-08-06 20:15:48 UTC

My locale is ru_RU.UTF-8
I emerge sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p4 and it creates file /usr/include/db.h with the following string (month name is encoded as UTF-8):
#define DB_VERSION_STRING   "Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (Август  6, 2009)"
After this, i try to emerge dev-lang/python-3.1 which fails:
...
File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-3.1/work/Python-3.1/Lib/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 926: ordinal not in range(128)

Analysis shown that ascii.py is trying to open /usr/include/db.h and character at position 926 is first byte (0xD0) of two-byte cyrillic letter "А" of the mentioned string.

I re-emerged sys-libs/db:
# LC_ALL=C emerge db

As result, file /usr/include/db.h now contains
#define DB_VERSION_STRING   "Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (August  6, 2009)"

After that, python-3.1 emerges without errors.

Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-06 21:16:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 280001 ***