bugmake - Bugs: bug #36529, UTF-8 with BOM causes a...

 
 

bug #36529: UTF-8 with BOM causes a non-descriptive error

Submitter:  Jeffrey Goeders <jgoeders>
Submitted:  Tue 22 May 2012 08:51:25 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Enhancement
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  psmith Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  3.81 Operating System:  POSIX-Based
Fixed Release:  4.0 Triage Status:  None
* Mandatory Fields

Add a New Comment Rich Markup
   

Sun 09 Sep 2012 09:12:12 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed.  UTF-8 BOM is ignored with no messages, but if you enable debugging a debug message is generated when this happens.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Tue 22 May 2012 08:51:25 PM UTC, original submission:  

When the makefile is encoded as UTF-8 and includes a BOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark), make will error.

The error reported is non-descriptive, and makes it seem like a tab-space issue:
Makefile:1: * missing separator.  Stop.

It would be nice if make simply ignored the BOM, or reported an appropriate error.

Jeffrey Goeders <jgoeders>

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attach Files:
   
   
Comment:
   

No files currently attached

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by psmith (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by jgoeders (Submitted the item)
  • -email is unavailable- added by jgoeders
  •  

    There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

    Only logged-in users can vote.

     

    Follow 5 latest changes.

    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2012-09-09 psmith StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone psmith
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.0
    2012-05-22 jgoeders Carbon-Copy- Added jgoeders

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-4448.
    Corresponding source code