This issue was originally created at: 2018-01-08 07:41:39.
This issue was reported by: mali80.
mali80 said at 2018-01-08 07:41:39

SCons fails when a node depends on a binary. When it tries to decode the content of the binary as ascii it fails with:

UnicodeDecodeError : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)

mali80 said at 2018-01-08 07:42:44

Created an attachment (id=973)
C++ source code for application

mali80 said at 2018-01-08 07:43:17

Created an attachment (id=974)
SConstruct to make "scons run" fail

mali80 said at 2018-01-08 07:46:59

Putting Sconstruct and main.cpp into empty folder and invoking "scons run" gives me the error using
SCons v3.0.1 (works with 2.3.0) on Ubuntu 14.04

SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
	script: v3.0.1.74b2c53bc42290e911b334a6b44f187da698a668, 2017/11/14 13:16:53,
by bdbaddog on hpmicrodog
	engine: v3.0.1.74b2c53bc42290e911b334a6b44f187da698a668, 2017/11/14 13:16:53,
14.04by bdbaddog on hpmicrodog

mali80 said at 2018-01-08 07:49:38

Stacktrace:

UnicodeDecodeError : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)
scons: internal stack trace:
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Job.py", line 387, in start
    task.prepare()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 175, in prepare
    return SCons.Taskmaster.OutOfDateTask.prepare(self)
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Taskmaster.py", line 179, in prepare
    self.exception_raise()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Taskmaster.py", line 550, in _exception_raise
    exec("raise exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback")
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Taskmaster.py", line 973, in next_task
    task.make_ready()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 309, in make_ready
    SCons.Taskmaster.OutOfDateTask.make_ready(self)
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Taskmaster.py", line 409, in make_ready_current
    t.disambiguate().make_ready()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Node/Python.py", line 102, in make_ready
    self.get_csig()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Node/Python.py", line 163, in get_csig
    contents = self.get_contents()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Node/Python.py", line 140, in get_contents
    text_contents = self.get_text_contents()
  File "scons-3.0.1/script/../engine/SCons/Node/Python.py", line 136, in get_text_contents
    contents = contents + kid.get_contents().decode()
scons: building terminated because of errors.

bdbaddog said at 2018-01-08 07:50:43

Please bring this issue to the scons users mailing list per the bug policy.

http://scons.org/bugs.html

I'm marking this bug invalid for the moment. If the users group discussion yields this is a valid (and as yet unfiled) bug, then we'll reopen this bug. Also you failed to select the version of python under "Platform" above.

mali80 said at 2018-01-09 00:29:47

Uh, but I asked for this behavior on the mailing list and was directed here?

bdbaddog said at 2018-01-09 05:30:04

Are you mpac1234?

mali80 said at 2018-01-09 11:41:54

Oops, my apologies. Yes, I am mpac1234 and mali80.

mali80 said at 2018-01-09 11:50:26

The issue occurs on Arch Linux also, with Python 3.6.4 (scons version same as above)

bdbaddog said at 2018-01-09 12:31:40

Reopening. Didn't connect your user name with mailing list thread.

mali80 said at 2018-01-09 23:24:43

Python version used on Ubuntu 14.04 was Python 2.7.6

mali80 said at 2018-01-09 23:30:44

Issue does also occur on Windows 7, Python 2.7.14, same SCons version

mali80 said at 2018-01-09 23:32:14

Issue does not occur with earlier SCons version (tried 2.3.0, 2.5.1)

mali80 said at 2018-01-10 01:48:08

Created an attachment (id=975)
The SConstruct I uploaded earlier does evoke the issue, but it does not what it was intended to: run the program each time "scons run" is invoked. This SConstruct does this.

mali80 attached main.cpp at 2018-01-08 07:42:44.

C++ source code for application

mali80 attached SConstruct at 2018-01-08 07:43:16.

SConstruct to make "scons run" fail

mali80 attached SConstruct at 2018-01-10 01:48:08.

The SConstruct I uploaded earlier does evoke the issue, but it does not what it was intended to: run the program each time "scons run" is invoked. This SConstruct does this.