samba - Jan 2022 - Samba 4.14.5 compile error on RHEL7.9

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
>

On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 14:15 -0400, Vincent S. Cojot via samba
wrote:
> 
> 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..
> 
Hi, Vincent have you the soltuion (for this build failure) ? 

Thank you 
> 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
> > 
> 
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