On 2022-12-06 13:18, Frank de Brabander via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Get rid of the duplicate code and add extra check that the
> locale en_US.UTF-8 is available on the system. This new helper
> method is now located right above the method filter_environment()
> which sets LC_ALL environment variable to 'en_US.UTF-8'.

Nice:

foo@2b7837225ffb:~/b/test$ bitbake -p coreutils
Please make sure locale 'en_US.UTF-8' is available on your system


Steve,

It would be nice if you cherry-pick this back to langdale and kirkstone, 
it's a clean c-p.

../Randy

>
> [YOCTO #10165]
>
> Signed-off-by: Frank de Brabander<debrabander@gmail.com>
> ---
>   bin/bitbake        |  3 +--
>   bin/bitbake-server |  5 +++--
>   bin/bitbake-worker |  3 +--
>   lib/bb/utils.py    | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>   4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/bin/bitbake b/bin/bitbake
> index 7cbf88f4..f869eb48 100755
> --- a/bin/bitbake
> +++ b/bin/bitbake
> @@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ except RuntimeError as exc:
>   from bb import cookerdata
>   from bb.main import bitbake_main, BitBakeConfigParameters, BBMainException
>   
> -if sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8":
> -    sys.exit("Please use a locale setting which supports UTF-8 (such as LANG=en_US.UTF-8).\nPython can't change the filesystem locale after loading so we need a UTF-8 when Python starts or things won't work.")
> +bb.utils.check_system_locale()
>   
>   __version__ = "2.2.0"
>   
> diff --git a/bin/bitbake-server b/bin/bitbake-server
> index 825e9d56..454a3919 100755
> --- a/bin/bitbake-server
> +++ b/bin/bitbake-server
> @@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ warnings.simplefilter("default")
>   import logging
>   sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])), 'lib'))
>   
> -if sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8":
> -    sys.exit("Please use a locale setting which supports UTF-8 (such as LANG=en_US.UTF-8).\nPython can't change the filesystem locale after loading so we need a UTF-8 when Python starts or things won't work.")
> +import bb
> +
> +bb.utils.check_system_locale()
>   
>   # Users shouldn't be running this code directly
>   if len(sys.argv) != 11 or not sys.argv[1].startswith("decafbad"): diff --git a/bin/bitbake-worker b/bin/bitbake-worker index 
> 3799b170..3cacdb0c 100755 --- a/bin/bitbake-worker +++ 
> b/bin/bitbake-worker @@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ import subprocess from 
> multiprocessing import Lock from threading import Thread -if 
> sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8":
> -    sys.exit("Please use a locale setting which supports UTF-8 (such as LANG=en_US.UTF-8).\nPython can't change the filesystem locale after loading so we need a UTF-8 when Python starts or things won't work.")
> +bb.utils.check_system_locale()
>   
>   # Users shouldn't be running this code directly
>   if len(sys.argv) != 2 or not sys.argv[1].startswith("decafbad"): diff --git a/lib/bb/utils.py b/lib/bb/utils.py index 
> f4da3563..0df522b3 100644 --- a/lib/bb/utils.py +++ b/lib/bb/utils.py 
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import errno import logging import bb import bb.msg 
> +import locale import multiprocessing import fcntl import importlib @@ 
> -608,6 +609,21 @@ def preserved_envvars(): ] return v + 
> preserved_envvars_exported() +def check_system_locale(): + """Make sure the required system locale are available and configured"""
> +    default_locale = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
> +
> +    try:
> +        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, ("en_US", "UTF-8"))
> +    except:
> +        sys.exit("Please make sure locale 'en_US.UTF-8' is available on your system")
> +    else:
> +        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, default_locale)
> +
> +    if sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8":
> +        sys.exit("Please use a locale setting which supports UTF-8 (such as LANG=en_US.UTF-8).\n"
> +                 "Python can't change the filesystem locale after loading so we need a UTF-8 when Python starts or things won't work.")
> +
>   def filter_environment(good_vars):
>       """
>       Create a pristine environment for bitbake. This will remove variables that
>
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