Problem running volk_modtool #406
Description
I have been having issues when running volk_modtool in my Ubuntu box from afresh copy of the master branch of volk. The executable starts ok, but it seems to be failing when parsing some files due to encoding issues.
For example, this is the output I keep getting when running the tool
Initializing config file...
name: lllll
destination: /home/dmiralles/Documents/test
base: /home/dmiralles/Documents/volk-master
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/volk_modtool", line 77, in <module>
my_modtool.make_module_skeleton();
File "/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.py", line 107, in make_module_skeleton
instring = open(infile, 'r').read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 5: invalid continuation byte
Not sure why this is happening, but if using my local clone, the error happens when parsing files within the .git repo. I added a print statement for volk_modtool_generate.py l107, and this is what I get before it errs
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/gitk.cache
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/HEAD
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/description
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/FETCH_HEAD
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/ORIG_HEAD
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/config
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/packed-refs
/home/dmiralles/Documents/volk/.git/index
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/volk_modtool", line 77, in <module>
my_modtool.make_module_skeleton();
File "/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.py", line 108, in make_module_skeleton
instring = open(infile, 'r').read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd6 in position 14: invalid continuation byte
which seems to indicate that it has encoding issues when reading contents of .git/index. This is probably a binary file, and we are using r option when reading.