On 17.11.2018 18:21, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 17.11.2018 16:30, Nick Kew wrote: >>> On 17 Nov 2018, at 14:49, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> This is a Python3 compatiblity bug in build/gen-build.py: >>> >>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position >>> 4731: ordinal not in range(128) >>> >>> We shouldn't assume source files contain only ASCII. >> What source file is it complaining about? >> And is the issue under our control or in library code from Python? > The difference is that Python3 converts file contents to Unicode strings > by default, whereas Python2 uses byte strings. I suspect the non-ASCII > character comes from one of the system headers on macOS. It works for me > (with Python3) on my laptop, but not on the buildslave — the former is > macOS 10.14, the latter is 10.13. > > If fixed this by explicitly specifying UTF-8 conversion with > codecs.open() instead of plain open(). However I'm not sure this is a > good enough fix; it would probably be better to parse headers as raw > strings in both Python 2 and 3, any kind of conversion makes too many > assumptions. > > For now, though, the build works on the buildslave — and exposes a bug > in shared memory handling on trunk and 1.7.x. > > -- Brane > > P.S.: I was a bit surprised that the Linux build slaves don't exercise > the test suite at all, just the build.
FWIW, this is the current status: https://ci.apache.org/waterfall?tag=apr-trunk&tag=apr-branch-1.6&tag=apr-branch-1.7
