[bug #60337] make install sed error macOS

[Tom Poage]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60337>

                 Summary: make install sed error macOS
                 Project: GNU gv
            Submitted by: tfpoage
            Submitted on: Sun 04 Apr 2021 05:12:59 PM UTC
                Category: Sources configuration
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: None
         Discussion Lock: Any

    _______________________________________________________

Details:

Details in https://github.com/johnhcc/homebrew-gs-x11/issues/1

macOS 11.2.3 (x86), zsh, en_US.UTF-8

See the gv_user.ad rule in src/Makefile{.in,.am}

Building GV.ad in src/Makefile inserts a handful of copyright lines. The
copyright line for José Marchesi has the é encoded in Latin-1 (0xE9). This
trips up macOS (BSD) sed with a Unicode/UTF-8 locale when building GV:

sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

IIRC one other file contains a UTF-8 encoded equivalent. All other copyright
lines for José use an ASCII 'e'.

The top-level configure script sets LC_ALL=C, but this does not propagate to
the Makefiles:

# NLS nuisances.
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
LANGUAGE=C
export LANGUAGE

Adding LC_ALL=C to the make line overrides the issue and the build succeeds:

make install LC_ALL=C

Gnu sed doesn't seem to care about the encoding. Those building on macOS would
need to install and understand how to override the build environment to use
Gnu sed.

Possible fixes:

1. Clean up binary characters in this build chain.
2. Change configure to insert LANG/LC_ALL=C in the Makefile.
3. Add LC_ALL=C to src/Makefile.{in,am}




    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60337>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via Savannah
  https://savannah.gnu.org/