Created attachment 653853 [details, diff] patch to fix the 2 invalid utf8 bytes There is a tiny "malformed utf8" byte in guile-1.8.8's documentation files that causes the package to fail during compilation. Apparently texinfo 6.5 was able to process it, but 6.7 can't. Upstream says that they're in a code freeze and that we should replace the byte with an ASCII space[1]. So I did, with the attached patch. Hopefully gentoo patch files can handle weird utf8 characters in them? If not we could hack the culprit files in an uglier way in src_prepare() maybe? For example: sed -i '908d' ./doc/ref/api-compound.texi sed -i '908iAcquire a handle for the vector @var{vec} and return a pointer to the' ./doc/ref/api-compound.texi sed -i '4195d' ./doc/ref/api-compound.texi sed -i '4195i Acquire a handle for the vector @var{vec} and return a pointer to the' ./doc/ref/api-compound.texi [1] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/lang/guile/Makefile?rev=1.112&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
Please include the failed build log and emerge --info.
It fails with the error message mentioned in that upstream link: utf8 "\xA0" does not map to Unicode at ParserNonXS.pm line 1796, <FH> line 908. Malformed UTF-8 character: \xa0 (unexpected continuation byte 0xa0, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at ParserNonXS.pm line 3364. Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at ParserNonXS.pm line 3364. It wasn't very informative, I had to hack around a bit to find exactly which files were causing it (api-compound.texi and guile.info-2 ... if you look at those two source files you'll find a single random weird UTF8 character in each of them.)
Created attachment 661170 [details] emerge --info I'm not the original submitter, but I'm encountering the same problem, so posting info requested in comment #1.
Created attachment 661173 [details] build log
Please advise what further information is needed to move this bug out of the NEEDINFO state. Thank you.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3f32eaf545ba48564c1ba109fc2792079257032b commit 3f32eaf545ba48564c1ba109fc2792079257032b Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-10-05 19:03:20 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-10-05 19:03:59 +0000 dev-scheme/guile: fix 1.8.8 build with >=sys-apps/texinfo-6.7 Drop unicode. Thanks-to: Dennis Nezic <dennisn@dennisn.mooo.com> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/736469 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.4, Repoman-3.0.1 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> .../guile/files/guile-1.8.8-texinfo-6.7.patch | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ dev-scheme/guile/guile-1.8.8-r3.ebuild | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
I confirm this solves the problem. Thank you!!
(In reply to Dave Kemper from comment #7) > I confirm this solves the problem. Thank you!! Fabulous, thanks for letting me know it's working btw!
