a configured locale is required to build hledger #420

daniel-vainsencher · 2016-10-20T20:42:33Z

Before:
[danielv@dvflair hledger]$ stack install hledger hledger-ui hledger-web -j1
hledger-0.28: build
Progress: 0/34
-- While building package hledger-0.28 using:
/home/danielv/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-linux-ncurses6/setup-Simple-Cabal-1.22.5.0-ghc-7.10.3 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-ncurses6/Cabal-1.22.5.0 build lib:hledger exe:hledger --ghc-options " -ddump-hi -ddump-to-file"
Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
Logs have been written to: /home/danielv/private/local/hledger/.stack-work/logs/hledger-0.28.log

Preprocessing library hledger-0.28...
[ 4 of 22] Compiling Hledger.Cli.DocFiles ( Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.hs, .stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-ncurses6/Cabal-1.22.5.0/build/Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.o )

/home/danielv/private/local/hledger/hledger/Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.hs:37:8:
    Exception when trying to run compile-time code:
      /home/danielv/private/local/hledger/hledger/doc/hledger.1: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)
    Code: (>>=) makeRelativeToProject "doc/hledger.1" embedStringFile
    In the splice:
      $(makeRelativeToProject "doc/hledger.1" >>= embedStringFile)

After doing
export LANG=en_US.utf8
Building works just fine. Some utf requiring data in the docs, I presume?

I guess there is a general good reason to depend on the platform locale, but is it ever useful to hledger users specifically? if so, please give error messages that clarify the problem.

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simonmichael · 2016-10-20T22:43:26Z

Thanks for the report.

It's very unfortunate, but any GHC-compiled haskell program encountering a non-ascii string, when there is no system locale configured, dies with unhelpful errors like this one. http://hledger.org/manual.html#troubleshooting and the man page BUGS sections mention this for users.

As you point out, it can be an issue during installation too. I suppose we must have some non-ascii in the docs, and these are now embedded into the haskell code at compile time. I'm having trouble reproducing it though. I did unset LANG, stack clean, ./Shake.hs docs, stack build hledger without problem.

simonmichael · 2016-10-20T22:50:09Z

Could you try stack --stack-yaml=stack-ghc8.yaml install hledger also. Perhaps GHC 8 will give a better error, revealing which tool it's coming from.

daniel-vainsencher · 2016-10-25T18:54:31Z

Added --verbose to that, think I got something that might be useful, see
the bottom.

About

It's very unfortunate, but any GHC-compiled haskell program encountering
a non-ascii string, when there is no
system locale configured, dies with unhelpful errors like this one.
How about using functions from [1] like getLocaleEncoding, which seems to
test for UTF. Then two options are:

Quit if locale is not UTF (but some might be sure enough all data is
encoded in something their own local can deal with)

Give a warning message when program starts up that "locale is , will
fail with message on non-conforming data".
A third possibility (also imperfect) is to use setLocaleEncoding to just
always work in UTF. I know GHC used to do that and stopped, but a policy
that is too strong for system libraries might be reasonable for an
application. Is UTF ever a bad choice for hledger?

http://hledger.org/manual.html#troubleshooting and the man page BUGS
sections mention this for users.
I had no problem understanding what is happening exactly because I'd run
across these before, but IMO informative error messages are much more
friendly than out-of-band documentation.

Daniel

[1]
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/GHC-IO-Encoding.html

danielv@dvflair ~/private/local/hledger-orig master $ stack
--stack-yaml=stack-ghc8.yaml install hledger --verbose
Version 1.2.0 x86_64
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2016-10-22 09:06:27.864816: [debug] Getting global package database location
@(Stack/GhcPkg.hs:54:5)
2016-10-22 09:06:27.864928: [debug] Run process: /usr/bin/ghc-pkg
--no-user-package-db list --global
@(System/Process/Read.hs:277:3)
2016-10-22 09:06:27.935506: [debug] Process finished in 70 ms:
/usr/bin/ghc-pkg --no-user-package-db list --global
@(System/Process/Read.hs:277:3)
2016-10-22 09:06:27.938755: [debug] Encoding
/home/danielv/private/local/hledger-orig/hledger/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0/stack-build-cache
@(Data/Store/VersionTagged.hs:51:5)
2016-10-22 09:06:27.952924: [debug] Finished writing
/home/danielv/private/local/hledger-orig/hledger/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0/stack-build-cache
@(Data/Store/VersionTagged.hs:55:5)
2016-10-22 09:06:27.953095: [info] hledger-0.28: build
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:740:23)
2016-10-22 09:06:27.953384: [debug] Run process:
/home/danielv/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-linux/setup-Simple-Cabal-1.24.0.0-ghc-8.0.1
--builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0 build lib:hledger
exe:hledger --ghc-options " -ddump-hi -ddump-to-file"
@(System/Process/Read.hs:277:3)
2016-10-22 09:06:28.065265: [info] Preprocessing library hledger-0.28...
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:28.660017: [info] [ 4 of 22] Compiling
Hledger.Cli.DocFiles ( Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.hs,
.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0/build/Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.o )
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.046456: [warn]
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.047149: [warn]
/home/danielv/private/local/hledger-orig/hledger/Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.hs:37:6:
error:
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.047364: [warn] * Exception when trying to run
compile-time code:
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.047516: [warn]
/home/danielv/private/local/hledger-orig/hledger/doc/hledger.1:
hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.047660: [warn] Code: (>>=) makeRelativeToProject
"doc/hledger.1" embedStringFile
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.047786: [warn] * In the untyped splice:
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.047914: [warn] $(makeRelativeToProject
"doc/hledger.1" >>= embedStringFile)
@(Stack/Build/Execute.hs:920:67)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.179643: [debug] Encoding
/home/danielv/private/local/hledger-orig/hledger/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0/stack-build-cache
@(Data/Store/VersionTagged.hs:51:5)
2016-10-22 09:06:29.203470: [debug] Finished writing
/home/danielv/private/local/hledger-orig/hledger/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0/stack-build-cache
@(Data/Store/VersionTagged.hs:55:5)

-- While building package hledger-0.28 using:

/home/danielv/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-linux/setup-Simple-Cabal-1.24.0.0-ghc-8.0.1
--builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.24.0.0 build lib:hledger
exe:hledger --ghc-options " -ddump-hi -ddump-to-file"
Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Simon Michael [email protected]
wrote:

Could you try stack --stack-yaml=stack-ghc8.yaml install hledger also.
Perhaps GHC 8 will give a better error, revealing which tool it's coming
from.

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simonmichael · 2016-10-25T20:03:52Z

Those are great UX ideas for hledger, and I might have a wishlist issue open for it somewhere [nope, just a note].

For building hledger, those changes would need to be done in GHC and maybe other tools as well, right ?

simonmichael · 2016-10-25T20:04:31Z

PS what can you tell from the verbose log ? Is the error coming from GHC ?

simonmichael · 2016-12-29T14:48:15Z

@daniel-vainsencher did you ever figure out what was erroring ? Any idea what the resolution for this issue should be as far as hledger is concerned ?

talex5 · 2018-07-23T07:53:22Z

This is easily reproduced with Docker. Do docker run -it fedora:28 bash then run the install script from http://hledger.org/download.html

hledger-1.10: configure
hledger-1.10: build

--  While building custom Setup.hs for package hledger-1.10 using:
      /root/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-linux-tinfo6/Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_2.2.0.1_ghc-8.4.3 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6/Cabal-2.2.0.1 build --ghc-options " -ddump-hi -ddump-to-file -fdiagnostics-color=always"
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
    Logs have been written to: /root/.stack/global-project/.stack-work/logs/hledger-1.10.log

    Configuring hledger-1.10...
    Preprocessing library for hledger-1.10..
    Building library for hledger-1.10..
    [ 1 of 30] Compiling Hledger.Cli.DocFiles ( Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.hs, .stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6/Cabal-2.2.0.1/build/Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.o )
    
    /tmp/stack69/hledger-1.10/Hledger/Cli/DocFiles.hs:38:6: error:
        * Exception when trying to run compile-time code:
            /tmp/stack69/hledger-1.10/embeddedfiles/hledger.1: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)
          Code: makeRelativeToProject "embeddedfiles/hledger.1"
                  >>= embedStringFile
        * In the untyped splice:
            $(makeRelativeToProject "embeddedfiles/hledger.1"
                >>= embedStringFile)
       |
    38 |     ($(makeRelativeToProject "embeddedfiles/hledger.1" >>= embedStringFile)
       |      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
Failed to install hledger-1.10 hledger-lib-1.10

simonmichael · 2018-07-23T09:39:09Z

Thanks. This is a well known issue with haskell tools and applications built with GHC. Since hledger-install.sh is supposed to work around all known issues, I guess it should be setting LANG to something that can handle the hledger docs if it is unset. Like the Makefile does:

# GHC-compiled executables require a locale (and not just C) or they
# will die on encountering non-ascii data. Set LANG to something if not already set.
export LANG?=en_US.UTF-8

Maybe that syntax works in hledger-install.sh too ?

simonmichael · 2018-07-23T09:42:07Z

Do we also need to explain this in the b2, b3 and c steps on the download page ? On the downside, whenever we try to document every possible breakage the instructions become huge and unreadable.

zarybnicky · 2018-07-27T05:20:30Z

@simonmichael I think it's best to fix this issue in the code itself, instead of trying to cover all possible ways stack/cabal could be called. The way to do this would be to simply hSetEncoding on all files-to-be-embedded via a custom version of embedStringFile - they should all be in UTF-8, right?

Instead of the file-embed's version\

embedStringFile :: FilePath -> Q Exp
embedStringFile fp =
#if MIN_VERSION_template_haskell(2,7,0)
    qAddDependentFile fp >>
#endif
  (runIO $ P.readFile fp) >>= strToExp

replace the last line with

runIO $ do
  h <- openFile fp ReadMode 
  hSetEncoding h utf8_bom
  strToExp <$> hGetContents inputHandle

(Not tested, might open a PR after I get some desperately needed sleep...)

AFAIK, this should fix all problems compiling with LANG=POSIX or similar.

simonmichael · 2018-07-28T06:48:40Z

That sounds interesting. I have sometimes tried too hard to paper over tooling/ecosystem issues and regretted it; it can be more fragile and cost more than it's worth. Let us know if you try it.

simonmichael added A-BUG Something wrong, confusing or sub-standard in the software, docs, or user experience. docs Documentation-related. tools hledger developer tools, scripts, processes.. labels Oct 20, 2016

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"Nonrepresentable section" error on Arch Linux / build toolchain ideas #668

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