strange character "â" in cmake generated makefile errors

Question

Terrible title, sorry. I used cmake to generate a makefile and I specified g++ as the C++ compiler and when I run the generated makefile using make or gmake I get all these compile errors and all my symbols have trailing â's on them. Any thoughts on what might be behind these mysterious â's?

Answer 1

You probably have the LANG environmental variable setup incorrectly. Try setting it to C or en_US.

If using bash something like export LANG=C or export LANG=en_US should solve your problem.