On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 02:42:48PM +0200, Nihanth Subramanya wrote:
> Note that the config.status changes in bug 844509 seem to break `$./mach
> clobber` - I had to manually rm -rf my objdir.

Filed as bug 1575959, fixed on mozilla-central.

Sorry for the annoyance.

Mike

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:35 AM Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In bug 1575135 and bug 844509, we've changed how configure handles
> > strings from files and subprocesses, to normalize everything to Unicode.
> >
> > On systems where the system locale is based on UTF-8 (e.g. most Linux
> > or macOS), this shouldn't make a difference.
> >
> > On systems where the system locale is not based on UTF-8, this might
> > cause problems, so please watch out, especially on non-Latin Windows.
> >
> > I don't believe things would have regressed (things should be handled
> > more or less similarly to before). I can think of a few things that
> > could fail, but for that matter, those I have in mind would have failed
> > before too.
> >
> > However, it is possible that a few corner cases that are not covered by
> > automation lead to configure complaining about some key or values not
> > being unicode strings. If that happens, please file bugs with your
> > mozconfig and as much detail as possible.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
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