[Sbcl-devel] Non-ASCII in the environment poisons the build

[Harald Hanche-O. <ha...@ma...>]

My build today of 1.0.8.8 ended with

WARNING! Some of the contrib modules did not build successfully or pass
their self-tests. Failed contribs:"
  asdf-install
  sb-bsd-sockets
  sb-posix
  sb-simple-streams

So naturally, I went looking through the build output and found this
error associated with each of the above:

  Error during processing of --eval option (LOAD #P"../asdf-stub.lisp"):

  The value #\LATIN_CAPITAL_LETTER_A_WITH_TILDE is not of type BASE-CHAR.

In the backtrace I find these (abstracted for your reading pleasure):

14: (SB-KERNEL:VECTOR-TO-VECTOR*
     "foo=some string containing a UTF-8 character whose first byte
      looks like à when read as latin-1"
     SIMPLE-BASE-STRING)
15: (SB-IMPL::STRING-LIST-TO-C-STRVEC
     (... the entire environment as a list of strings ...)

- Harald