The environment may contain some unicode characters. At least that is what
seemed to happen on one commit:
Building current source for 1 boards (0 threads, 64 jobs per thread)
0 0 0 /1 -1 (starting)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../tools/buildman/buildman", line 64, in <module>
ret_code = control.DoBuildman(options, args)
File "tools/buildman/control.py", line 372, in DoBuildman
options.keep_outputs, options.verbose)
File ".../tools/buildman/builder.py", line 1704, in BuildBoards
results = self._single_builder.RunJob(job)
File ".../tools/buildman/builderthread.py", line 526, in RunJob
self._WriteResult(result, job.keep_outputs, job.work_in_output)
File ".../tools//buildman/builderthread.py", line 349, in _WriteResult
print('%s="%s"' % (var, env[var]), file=fd)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
311-312: ordinal not in range(128)
The problem defies repetition with any change at all to buildman. But
let's set an encoding in any case.