Re: Build failure for texinfo revision 6402 from SVN

[Gavin Smith]

On 10 July 2015 at 22:12, Stefan Husmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> I get segfaults when compiling under Arch Linux for x86_64.
>

Thanks for reporting this. It's very useful for improving reliability.

The problem appears to be here:

> /bin/sh: line 15:  4053 Aborted                 (core dumped) ( /usr/bin/perl 
> -I "../tp" -I "../tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib" -I 
> "../tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/lib" -I 
> "../tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph" -I 
> "../tp/maintain/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib" -I 
> "../tp/maintain/lib/Text-Unidecode/lib" ../tp/texi2any --version ) > 
> /dev/null 2>&1
> Couldn't set UTF-8 character type in locale.
> /bin/sh: line 15:  4056 Aborted                 (core dumped) /usr/bin/perl 
> -I "../tp" -I "../tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib" -I

As you can see it's hit a snag because it tried to set the locale to
en_US.UTF-8 but failed for some reason.

We do plan on making it possible to recover from this (using
alternative functions to process UTF-8 data), but I do find it strange
that this locale is (apparently) not supported on your system.

I see there is a test

checking whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales... yes

so maybe there is some other way to set a UTF-8 locale that we should use.

Could you try running "locale -a" and see if any UTF-8 locales are listed?

Gavin