Bug #39235 for ExtUtils-MakeMaker: Invalid UTF-8 sequence in generated Makefile breaks Solaris 2.10+

Fri Sep 12 17:15:26 2008 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Invalid UTF-8 sequence in generated Makefile breaks Solaris 2.10+

If Makefile.PL contains utf8 characters, they are converted to bytes in the Makefile generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker. This would not be a big deal (except that META.yml will also be in bytes) but this causes several modules to FAIL on i86pc-solaris-64int 2.10+: http://groups.google.com/group/perl.cpan.testers/search?group=perl.cpan.testers&q=i86pc-solaris-64int+invalid-byte-sequence

Fri Apr 03 08:47:45 2009 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Sep 12 17:15:26 2008, CFAERBER wrote: Show quoted text

> > If Makefile.PL contains utf8 characters, they are converted to bytes > in > the Makefile generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker. > > This would not be a big deal (except that META.yml will also be in > bytes) but this causes several modules to FAIL on i86pc-solaris-64int > 2.10+: > >

http://groups.google.com/group/perl.cpan.testers/search?group=perl.cpan.testers&q=i86pc- Show quoted text

> solaris-64int+invalid-byte-sequence

So what's the solution? I don't know much about byte encoding. MakeMaker doesn't appear to make any special consideration regarding character sets.

Fri Apr 03 08:47:46 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Apr 03 08:54:04 2009 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Severity Critical changed to Normal

Fri Apr 03 08:55:20 2009 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

Sun Apr 05 11:12:10 2009 cfaerber [...] cfaerber.name - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [cpan.org] [rt.cpan.org #39235] Invalid UTF-8 sequence in generated Makefile breaks Solaris 2.10+
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:11:46 +0200
To:	bug-ExtUtils-MakeMaker [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Claus Färber <cfaerber [...] cfaerber.name>

Am 2009-04-03 um 14:47 schrieb Michael G Schwern via RT: Show quoted text

> So what's the solution? I don't know much about byte encoding. > MakeMaker doesn't appear to make any special consideration regarding > character sets.

Unfortunately, I don't know MakeMaker well enough to have a solution. Further, any solution might introduce further incompabilities on other platforms. The first thing that comes to my mind is: just read and write everything as ':utf8'. However, this means that no distribution will be able to use non-utf8 8bit filenames. (But then, I don't think that 8bit filenames are currently possible with MakeMaker.) Claus

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Sun Apr 05 11:12:12 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'open'

Thu Apr 09 14:29:10 2009 burak [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

05 Nis. 2009 Paz., 11:12:10 tarihinde, cfaerber@cfaerber.name yazdı: Show quoted text

> > Am 2009-04-03 um 14:47 schrieb Michael G Schwern via RT:

> > So what's the solution? I don't know much about byte encoding. > > MakeMaker doesn't appear to make any special consideration regarding > > character sets.

> > Unfortunately, I don't know MakeMaker well enough to have a

solution. Show quoted text

> Further, any solution might introduce further incompabilities on

other Show quoted text

> platforms. > > The first thing that comes to my mind is: just read and write > everything as ':utf8'. However, this means that no distribution will > be able to use non-utf8 8bit filenames. (But then, I don't think

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> 8bit filenames are currently possible with MakeMaker.) > > Claus

That Makefile.PL contains some characters but the file encoding ain't utf8. Don't know if this'll make a difference but you can try to make the file encoding utf8 to test. FYI: Unix.pm itself seems to be in utf8 encoding

Fri Feb 14 11:56:09 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Cc ETHER added

Thu Jun 05 08:22:19 2014 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Cc DOLMEN added

Mon Jul 28 22:02:49 2014 ETJ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Up to date URL for those CPAN test results: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/perl.cpan.testers/i86pc-solaris-64int$2Binvalid-byte-sequence I claim this is obsolete since it is a local issue on a now-old version of Solaris, and no other open reports on this issue.

Thu Jul 31 10:46:52 2014 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I believe this is patched in the latest development release. Solaris make *does* have issues with encoding in EUMM generated Makefiles. I will need to test on Solaris 11 before v7.00 is released.

Thu Jul 31 10:46:53 2014 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Sun Dec 14 02:27:41 2014 ETJ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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7.00 is released.

Sun Dec 14 02:27:44 2014 ETJ [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'