Re: glib2 failure on NetBSD 9

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 1/27/23 06:45, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Am Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 09:44:28AM +0000 schrieb Patrick Welche:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 02:05:31PM -0600, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > > Getting this build error in glib2.  This is being run from pkg_chk -su, so
> > > in theory all installed dependencies should be up-to-date.
> > >
> > > [815/1255] Generating gio/tests/plugin-resources.c with a custom command
> > > FAILED: gio/tests/plugin-resources.c
> > > /home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/glib-2.74.4/output/gio/glib-compile-resources
> > > --compiler=gcc --target=gio/tests/plugin-resources.c
> > > --sourcedir=/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/glib-2.74.4/gio/tests
> > > --internal --generate-source --c-name _g_plugin
> > > ../gio/tests/test4.gresource.xml
> > > GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set “UTF-8” to “646”
> > > is not supported
> > > Conversion from character set “646” to “UTF-8” is not supported
> >
> > I'm at a loss where the "646" is coming from. AFAICT the test tries to
> > encode a file containing the word "test1" + 0xa LF, which "file" guesses
> > as ASCII, into UTF-8.
> >
> > Guessing "646" has something to do with your build environment?
>
> ISO 646 is ASCII.
>
> Joerg

Here's my locale, which hasn't changed in years:

NetBSD netbsd9.acadix  bacon ~ 1004: (pkgsrc): printenv|grep UTF
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
LANG=C.UTF-8

Changing it to en_US.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8 has no effect.