[Bioc-devel] Warning message concerning encoding on pitt server

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Vincent Carey
<stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I don't think you have to worry about this.  The locale of the pitt
> server will have to be set correctly to eliminate this warning.
>
> FWIW I used
>
> export LANG=en_US.US-ASCII
>
> in .bashrc to get this out of my hair.

We did this and the warnings are gone (this will be reflected in
tomorrow's build report).

Dan

>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Andreas Mitterecker
> <mitterecker at bioinf.jku.at> wrote:
>> Dear mailing list,
>>
>> The CHECK report of the cn.farms package on the pitt server (Mac OS X
>> Leopard (10.5.8) / i386) throws the warning:
>> 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible
>> (http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/cn.farms/pitt-checksrc.html)
>>
>> This problem occurs on the release branch (BioC 2.8) as well as on
>> development branch (BioC 2.9).
>> I first observed this warning without having changed anything in the package
>> and there is definitely no 'Encoding' field in the DESCRIPTION file.
>> I have also tried to change the encoding of the DESCRIPTION file, but this
>> didn't help either. Furthermore I had the package tested on another Mac
>> machine and the warning didn't show up. Therefore I suppose the this warning
>> is quite specific for the pitt server.
>>
>> Furthermore the exact same warning message shows up on following
>> Bioconductor packages:
>> - charm
>> - crlmm
>> - frma
>> - IsoGeneGUI
>> - ITALICS
>> - oligo
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help you can provide,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> ----------------------------
>> Andreas Mitterecker
>> Johannes Kepler University
>> Institute of Bioinformatics
>> Altenberger Straße 69
>> 4040 Linz, Austria
>> mitterecker at bioinf.jku.at
>>
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