[Samba] Samba 4.14.5 compile error on RHEL7.9

[vincent at cojot.name]

Issue has already been reported against 4.14rc2:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2021-February/136284.html

I'll see if I can set that in the builds..

Vincent S. Cojot


On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, vincent at cojot.name wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to move forward with compiling samba 4.14.y on RHEL7.9 and I 
> received the following error (which I hadn't seen before):
>
> ----------------
> [429/443] Compiling source4/heimdal/lib/asn1/gen_free.c
> [430/443] Compiling source4/heimdal/lib/asn1/gen_template.c
> Waf: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/samba-4.14.5/bin/default'
> Build failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/samba-4.14.5/third_party/waf/waflib/Task.py", 
> line 350, in process
>    ret = self.run()
>  File "./buildtools/wafsamba/samba_waf18.py", line 30, in flexfun
>    tsk.outputs[0].write(txt.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')) # 
> issue #1207
>  File "/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/samba-4.14.5/third_party/waf/waflib/Node.py", 
> line 201, in write
>    Utils.writef(self.abspath(), data, flags, encoding)
>  File "/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/samba-4.14.5/third_party/waf/waflib/Utils.py", 
> line 268, in writef
>    data = data.encode(encoding)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 
> 14657-14658: ordinal not in range(256)
>
> [...]
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 
> 33323-33324: ordinal not in range(256)
>
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.FN8jcR (%build)
> ----------------
>
> This is my first attempt at building 4.14 rpms on el7.9 so perhaps there's a 
> message right there but if someone could shed some light on the failure, I'd 
> be very grateful. :)
>
> Vincent S. Cojot
>