perl 5.8.1_6 build fails on FreeBSD 9.2

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 7 11:35:30 UTC 2014


+--On 29 décembre 2013 14:36:52 +0200 Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com>
wrote:
| The reason for this seems to be that some XML file in the perl
| package contains 8-bit text (someone's name most likely) which
| cannot be processed using UTF-8 locales.
| When I set LC_CTYPE to any ISO8859 locale the build works just
| fine.
| If the build needs a proper 8-bit ISO8859 locale to work, maybe
| such a locale should be set automatically in the beginning of the
| build process.

Oh, btw, it is not per se a port bug, more a Perl bug, you should take it
up with the perl developpers :-p

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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