'LANG' environment variable needs to be unset to link react-native-fbsdk

[jandom]

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Nope

Environment

$ react-native info
Scanning 615 folders for symlinks in /private/tmp/helloWorldApp/node_modules (6ms)

Environment:
  OS:  macOS Sierra 10.12.6
  Node:  8.5.0
  Yarn:  1.0.1
  npm:  5.4.2
  Watchman:  4.9.0
  Xcode:  Xcode 8.3.3 Build version 8E3004b
  Android Studio:  2.3 AI-162.3871768

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: 16.0.0-alpha.12 => 16.0.0-alpha.12
  react-native: 0.48.3 => 0.48.3

Steps to Reproduce

$ react-native -v
react-native-cli: 2.0.1

$ react-native init helloWorldApp 
$ cd helloWorldApp
$ react-native info 

react-native install react-native-fbsdk

Expected Behavior

I would expect that it would install without barfing?

Actual Behavior

Scanning 615 folders for symlinks in /private/tmp/helloWorldApp/node_modules (5ms)
yarn add v1.0.1
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
[3/4] 🔗  Linking dependencies...
warning "babel-jest@21.0.2" has incorrect peer dependency "babel-core@^6.0.0 || ^7.0.0-alpha || ^7.0.0-beta || ^7.0.0".
[4/4] 📃  Building fresh packages...
success Saved lockfile.
success Saved 1 new dependency.
└─ react-native-fbsdk@0.6.1
✨  Done in 3.25s.
Scanning 616 folders for symlinks in /private/tmp/helloWorldApp/node_modules (6ms)
rnpm-install info Linking react-native-fbsdk android dependency 
rnpm-install info Android module react-native-fbsdk has been successfully linked 
rnpm-install info Linking react-native-fbsdk ios dependency 
rnpm-install ERR! Something went wrong while linking. Error: Expected "/*", "//", or "{" but "<" found. 
Please file an issue here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues 

Expected "/*", "//", or "{" but "<" found.

Reproducible Demo

See above , this can be fixed by doing

$ LANG= react-native install react-native-fbsdk
Scanning 616 folders for symlinks in /private/tmp/helloWorldApp/node_modules (5ms)
yarn add v1.0.1
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
[3/4] 🔗  Linking dependencies...
warning "babel-jest@21.0.2" has incorrect peer dependency "babel-core@^6.0.0 || ^7.0.0-alpha || ^7.0.0-beta || ^7.0.0".
[4/4] 📃  Building fresh packages...
success Saved 1 new dependency.
└─ react-native-fbsdk@0.6.1
✨  Done in 3.27s.
Scanning 616 folders for symlinks in /private/tmp/helloWorldApp/node_modules (5ms)
rnpm-install info Android module react-native-fbsdk is already linked 
rnpm-install info Linking react-native-fbsdk ios dependency 
rnpm-install info iOS module react-native-fbsdk has been successfully linked 
rnpm-install info Module react-native-fbsdk has been successfully installed & linked 

And then install correctly

$ env 
...
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
...

[aforty]

This is a well known problem with react-native-fbsdk and doesn't really belong here. Submit the problem to Facebook via https://developers.facebook.com/bugs instead.

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