[Qemu-devel] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.

[Qemu-devel] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.

[Rahul Gusai]

I am getting the following error while trying to compile the binaries for
QEMU emulator.







*GEN   qemu.1qemu.pod around line 95: Non-ASCII character seen before
=encoding in 'Sch�tz.'. Assuming UTF-8POD document had syntax errors at
/usr/bin/pod2man line 68.Makefile:297: recipe for target 'qemu.1'
failedmake: *** [qemu.1] Error 255make: *** Deleting file 'qemu.1'*
What could be the issue ?

Re: [Qemu-devel] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.

[Eric Blake]

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On 04/27/2018 03:47 AM, Rahul Gusai wrote:
> I am getting the following error while trying to compile the binaries for
> QEMU emulator.
>

Your mailer corrupted line spacing, making it difficult to read.

> *GEN   qemu.1qemu.pod around line 95: Non-ASCII character seen before
> =encoding in 'Sch�tz.'. Assuming UTF-8POD document had syntax errors at
> /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.Makefile:297: recipe for target 'qemu.1'
> failedmake: *** [qemu.1] Error 255make: *** Deleting file 'qemu.1'*

qemu.pod is a generated file; the version in my build tree starts out:

=encoding UTF-8

and then uses proper UTF-8 encoding of line 95:

by Tibor "TS" Schütz.

> What could be the issue ?

What do the following output in your setup:

$ locale
$ grep =encoding qemu.pod
$ sed -n '92,98p' qemu.pod | od -tx1z

I'm wondering if somehow you have a non-UTF-8 locale such that the
generated .pod file is encoded in a different locale, to the point that
pod2man then chokes on the file.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:52:53AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/27/2018 03:47 AM, Rahul Gusai wrote:
> > I am getting the following error while trying to compile the binaries for
> > QEMU emulator.
> >
> 
> Your mailer corrupted line spacing, making it difficult to read.
> 
> > *GEN   qemu.1qemu.pod around line 95: Non-ASCII character seen before
> > =encoding in 'Sch�tz.'. Assuming UTF-8POD document had syntax errors at
> > /usr/bin/pod2man line 68.Makefile:297: recipe for target 'qemu.1'
> > failedmake: *** [qemu.1] Error 255make: *** Deleting file 'qemu.1'*
> 
> qemu.pod is a generated file; the version in my build tree starts out:
> 
> =encoding UTF-8
> 
> and then uses proper UTF-8 encoding of line 95:
> 
> by Tibor "TS" Schütz.
> 
> > What could be the issue ?
> 
> What do the following output in your setup:
> 
> $ locale
> $ grep =encoding qemu.pod
> $ sed -n '92,98p' qemu.pod | od -tx1z
> 
> I'm wondering if somehow you have a non-UTF-8 locale such that the
> generated .pod file is encoded in a different locale, to the point that
> pod2man then chokes on the file.

If that is the cause, it just reinforces that we should make our makefile
set a sane LC_CTYPE for *every* command we invoke, not just the few places
we set it for python.

Regards,
Daniel
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