Re: tar: Can't translate pathname 'xxx' to UTF-8

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 07:11:15PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:43:26 +0200
> > From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
> > 
> > I think I've seen comments about a similar issue before. What would be
> > the correct way to fix this ?
> 
> What platform is this on and in what stage of the build did it happen?

It's NetBSD 11.0/amd64, with pkgsrc-2026Q3.

> 
> You may be thinking of this thread, and of its resolution of setting
> LC_CTYPE.UTF-8 in EXTRACT_ENV (on NetBSD), after I fixed a bug in
> NetBSD's libarchive/bsdtar so that it would not silently suppress an
> underlying error:
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2026/08/24/msg015051.html
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2026/08/24/msg015069.html
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2026/08/24/msg352989.html

I checked, I have this change in my tree

> 
> However, it is subtly different.
> 
> Your error message is:
> 
> tar: ./kicad-10.0.6/...: Can't translate pathname './kicad-10.0.6/...' to UTF-8
> 
> The error message wiz reported is:
> 
> tar: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale
> 
> You appear to have had this issue before, in 2023, with a similar but
> not quite identical pathname:
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2023/06/03/msg027628.html
> 
> It is unclear whether you resolved it then, because at the time you
> concluded the failure was actually somewhere else in the build:
> 
> > forget this, I focused on the tar error but it's not what causes the package
> > to fail.
> > I shouldn't look at pbulk output before first coffee :)

thanks; and again the build did not stop on the tar error, it's a missing
dependancy in the build phase. Sorry for the noise

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