[kde-freebsd] LANG setting of UTF-16 causes automoc to crash

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

At Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:26:38 -0400,
Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I ran into this while trying to upgrade to 4.5.1:
> 
> Generating moc_FakeBackend.cpp                                                  
> ��/                                                                             
> automoc4: process for 
> /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.5.1/build/kdecore/moc_FakeBackend.cpp 
> failed: Unknown error
> pid to wait for: 0
> Generating moc_HelperProxy.cpp
> Generating moc_kauthactionreply.cpp                                             
> /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.5.1/kdecore/auth/kauthactionreply.h:0: 
> Warning: No relevant classes found. No output generated.
> returning failed..
> gmake[2]: *** [kdecore/CMakeFiles/kdecore_automoc] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.5.1/build'
> gmake[1]: *** [kdecore/CMakeFiles/kdecore_automoc.dir/all] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.5.1/build'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4.
> 
> (Generated using -DDISABLE_MAKE_JOBS -DCMAKE_VERBOSE)
> 
> The two weird characters made me wonder if my choice of default character 
> encoding (I had en_CA.UTF-16 set as $LANG) was the problem. I changed it to 
> UTF-8 and the problem vanished. I also verified it with en_US.UTF-16. 
> 
> I'll leave it up to wiser KDE heads then mine if this should be reported 
> upstream.

I'm still unsure whether it is the LANG setting itself that's causing
this problem, but unless the ports guys say otherwise, I'd take this
to the kde-buildsystem mailing list in KDE itself.