950066 - Building error on Windows - UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 944551

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[balah_v]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131112160018

Steps to reproduce:

Start building "./mach build"

Mozconfig:
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=xulrunner
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-xul-win-rlz-2
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-s -j1"

ac_add_options --disable-activex
ac_add_options --disable-tests
#ac_add_options --enable-logging
#ac_add_options --enable-debug
#ac_add_options --disable-optimize
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --enable-application=xulrunner
export WIN32_REDIST_DIR="$VCINSTALLDIR\\redist\\x86\\Microsoft.VC120.CRT"





Actual results:

Output:
...
 1:50.50 Traceback (most recent call last):
 1:50.50   File "./config.status", line 866, in <module>
 1:50.50     config_status(**args)
 1:50.50   File "d:\mozilla-sdk\mozilla-central\build\ConfigStatus.py", line 76, in config_status
 1:50.50     non_global_defines=non_global_defines, substs=substs)
 1:50.50   File "d:\mozilla-sdk\mozilla-central\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\backend\configenvironment.py", line 119, in __init__
 1:50.51     serialize(self.substs[name])) for name in self.substs if self.substs[name]]))
 1:50.51 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
 1:50.54 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
 1:50.55                "c:/mozilla-build/python/python.exe d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymake/../make.py -f client.mk build"
 1:50.56 d:\mozilla-sdk\mozilla-central\client.mk:365:0: command 'cd d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/obj-xul-win-rlz-2 &&  MAKE='c:/mozilla-build/pytho
n/python.exe d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymake/../make.py'  d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/configure  \
 1:50.56   || ( echo '*** Fix above errors and then restart with\
 1:50.56                "c:/mozilla-build/python/python.exe d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymake/../make.py -f client.mk build"' && exit
 1 )' failed, return code 1
 1:50.56 d:\mozilla-sdk\mozilla-central\client.mk:377:0: command 'c:/mozilla-build/python/python.exe d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymak
e/../make.py -f d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/client.mk configure' failed, return code 2
 1:50.56 d:\mozilla-sdk\mozilla-central\client.mk:185:0: command 'c:/mozilla-build/python/python.exe d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymak
e/../make.py -f d:/mozilla-sdk/mozilla-central/client.mk realbuild' failed, return code 2
 1:50.66 0 compiler warnings present.
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