FYI: WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD= problem for some files?

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-May-4, at 06:01, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 May 2021 at 22:26, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> But I'll note that I've built and stalled py37-diffoscope
>> (new to me). A basic quick test showed that it reports:
>> 
>> W: diffoscope.main: Fuzzy-matching is currently disabled as the "tlsh" module is unavailable.
> 
> I just looked up tlsh - its "A Locality Sensitive Hash"; I presume
> diffoscope uses it to infer file renames. I believe the warning
> emitted here should have no impact on the output we're looking for.

Okay.

> As far as the utf-8 issues go, diffoscope requires a utf-8 locale and
> I suspect that is the issue. If you don't have LANG set already, try
> setting LANG=C.UTF-8 in your environment.

That is not the issue for the UnicodeDecodeError:

# echo $LANG
C.UTF-8

# diffoscope /.zfs/snapshot/2021-04-*-01:40:48-0/bin/sh
$<3/>2021-05-04 08:49:21 W: diffoscope.main: Fuzzy-matching is currently disabled as the "tlsh" module is unavailable.
$<3/>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/diffoscope/main.py", line 745, in main
    sys.exit(run_diffoscope(parsed_args))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/diffoscope/main.py", line 677, in run_diffoscope
    difference = load_diff_from_path(path1)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/diffoscope/readers/__init__.py", line 31, in load_diff_from_path
    return load_diff(codecs.getreader("utf-8")(fp), path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/diffoscope/readers/__init__.py", line 35, in load_diff
    return JSONReaderV1().load(fp, path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/diffoscope/readers/json.py", line 33, in load
    raw = json.load(fp)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/codecs.py", line 504, in read
    newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 18: invalid start byte

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