#8167: build fails in non-unicode locale [happy: compiler/stage1/build/Parser.y: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)] ----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: rwbarton | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.7 (Parser) | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: Building GHC failed Architecture: | Test Case: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- To reproduce, check out a fresh copy of GHC and `export LC_ALL=C` before going through the steps to build it. Commit 96adf0e99 introduced non-ASCII (UTF-8) text into `compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp` in a string literal. `happy` tries to read this file in the encoding corresponding to the system locale. Probably `happy` ought to declare that all its input files are UTF-8, like GHC does, but it currently doesn't, so it seems best to just ensure that `Parser.y.pp` is pure ASCII. Patch attached. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8167> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler