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On 1/4/2014 16:33, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, the wise John Marino wrote:
> 
>> Ruby18 is gone forever, and unsupported, so that's not the best option.
>> DragonFly had these same type errors with ruby19, until we redefined
>> GEM_ENV in bsd.ruby.mk
>>
>> -GEM_ENV?=                LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
>> +GEM_ENV+=                LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> Maybe setting GEM_ENV in your make.conf and rebuilding all the ruby
>> stuff would fix it for you too.  Shot in the dark.
> 
> Tried both changing /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ruby.mk and setting GEM_ENV in
> make.conf and rebuilding the ruby stuff, but this had no effect.
> 
> Thanks for the tip anyway.

I suspect Mat's comment was closer to the problem, "That error may come
from a non us-ascii character in portupgrade's configuration files."

My fix was build-time, but you can build it, so it was a different
issue.  Try following Mat's tip.
John