Bug 728630

Summary:	UnicodeEncodeError during compile firefox 77.0.1 (x86)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gerhard Hintermayer <gerhard.hintermayer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical	CC:	leio
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Gerhard Hintermayer 2020-06-18 09:36:54 UTC

when upgrading to latest FF emerge fails with:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf6' in position 80: ordinal not in range(128)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -uf firefox
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Expected Results:  
emerge without problems

Comment 1 Gerhard Hintermayer 2020-06-18 09:38:33 UTC

Created attachment 645150 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 2 Gerhard Hintermayer 2020-06-18 09:40:58 UTC

I founnd old entries about a similar bug back in 2016, this was locale related, but obviously this is still active - at least under my env

Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2020-06-18 09:51:58 UTC

You need python3.7 or newer for the build, and recent updates to the ebuild should be enforcing that, as to not fail like this. See the other bug for details.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727110 ***

Comment 4 Gerhard Hintermayer 2020-06-18 10:25:09 UTC

ah sorry, did no find this under related bugs for www-client/firefox (on packages.gentoo.org), strange.
BTW python 3.7 is not enforced. will read the original thread of the bug

Comment 5 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2020-06-18 10:55:55 UTC

It should be enforced by now. But this was done yesterday without a revision bump - maybe you don't have it in your sync yet. 3.6 was removed from PYTHON_COMPAT.