IBMJava2-ppc-142: little surprises

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

I uncovered the source of the java compilation problem I encountered
while building the kde java bindings for kde-3.3.2. 

The konstruct build of the kde java bindings involves a step where 723
source files are simultaneously fed to the java compiler. The
compilation process fails, issuing the complaint:
 
	error: IO exception sun.io.MalformedInputException

In order to identify the culprit(s), I wrote a simple "for loop" that
compiled the 723 java source files one at a time and captured any output
to a text file. I found one java source file that failed to compile,
KListView.java, inflicted collateral damage on several others. I stared
at the file for a bit, but nothing jumped out at me.

What to do???

	When all else fails, RTFM !!! 
	[Read The Fine Manual, :-)].


>From IBM's sdkguide.lnx.htm:

        |If your system locale is using a UTF-8 encoding, some SDK
        |tools might throw a sun.io.MalformedInputException. To find out
        whether your |system is using a UTF-8 encoding, examine the
        locale-specific environment |variables such as LANG or LC_ALL to
        |see if they end with the suffix ".UTF-8". If you get this
        sun.io.MalformedInputException, |change characters that are not
        within the 7-bit ASCII range (0x00 - 0x7f) |and are not
        represented as Java Unicode character literals to Java Unicode
        |character literals (for example: '\u0080'). You can also work
        around this |problem by removing the ".UTF-8" suffix from the
        locale-specific environment |variables; for example, if your
        machine has default locale of "en_US.UTF-8", |set LANG to
        "en_US". | |
        Note:
        |
        Some distributions |of RedHat, including Redhat9 and RHEL3, use
        UTF-8 encoding by default.



Looks like some changes need to be made to the locale-specific
environment for YDL-4. I renamed the environment variable, which allowed
the java compilation to succeed.


Onwards,

-Joseph

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