[solved] Malformed UTF-8 in x11-toolkits/p5-Gtk2

[Martin Laabs]

Hi,

I am currently building the x11-toolkits/p5-Gtk2 port and get the following
errors:

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arsing XS files...
Creating stock items POD...
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in length at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 52.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in length at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 52.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in length at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 52.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in length at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 52.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in length at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 52.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in length at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 52.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
immediately after start byte 0xfc) in printf at tools/podifystockitems.pl
line 68.
Code point 0x0000 is not Unicode, may not be portable at
tools/podifystockitems.pl line 68.
[...]Generating POD...
Loaded 9 extra types from doctypes
Loaded 2 extra types from
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2/mach/Pango/Install/doctypes
Loaded 8 extra types from
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2/mach/Glib/Install/doctypes
Loaded 7 extra types from
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2/mach/Cairo/Install/doctypes
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/mach/Data/Dumper.pm line 682.
gmake: *** [build/podindex] Fehler 25
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Gtk2.
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The cause is the environmental variable LC_ALL that was set to
"de_DE.ISO8859-1" for me. Unsetting it with unset LC_ALL (if you use bash)
resolve the problem.

Best regards,
 Martin Laabs