Bug#798003: freeimage: please change FreeImage.h encoding
Ghislain Vaillant
ghisvail at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 14:07:42 UTC 2015
Hi Christophe,
> could you please change the encoding on installed FreeImage.h header?
> The actual encoding is no longer ASCII since you introduced a second
> author "hervé".
> This change may cause some packages to FTBS.
You meant *upstream* introduced a second author, not us?
I saw that Fedora is solving the inconsistent encoding by converting all
source files to UTF-8 [1]. Would that solve your problem?
[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/freeimage/
> Trying to install salome from source FTBS because of this change.
> The installer tries to recover FreeImage version by using grep >
VERSION in FreeImage.h
> The non ASCII encoding somehow breaks this as the grep command no
> longer returns the lines including "VERSION". Instead the grep
> command return a message "Binary .... matches".
> Changing "hervé" to herve fix the problem.
Sounds that the version parsing of `salome` is a bit fragile too.
Ghis
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