npm rebuild fails when compiling native packages

[kmohrf]

npm rebuild fails when compiling native packages

[heartsucker]

Hmm this one is a bit tougher to figure out. I can take a peek at it, but I'm almost tempted to throw a --no-rebuild flag along with an --arch {amd64, i386, etc} flag in there to allow package maintainers to handle builds how they best see fit.

Are you doing anything exotic with your build environment? How is that different than where you are deploying it?

[kmohrf]

my build environment is archlinux. i installed debhelper debianutils and devscripts from the arch user repositories (meaning they’re not official packages and build from user-contributed package specifications). but they should be fine. i’m building on x64 which is also the target platforms architecture (so in my specific case node_modules might already contain the correct node package builds). things that differ are node (v7.7.1 locally, v4.7.2 on deploy target) and npm (v4.3.0 locally, v1.4.21 on deploy target) though i have been using yarn locally to install dependencies.

up until now i deployed in a debian chroot, that i created with cdebootstrap (cdebootstrap-static stretch debian). i only installed curl, nodejs nodejs-legacy npm vim less. so this is a fairly basic system. if you believe the problems might be caused by the build enviroment i’ll try to build the package in the chroot.

[kmohrf]

i ran a second build in the debian chroot. npm took about ~35 minutes but the resulting build worked out of the box. but i guess that’s just because sqlite didn’t do anything this time. dpkg logged the following lines

[sqlite3] Success: "/usr/share/mirror-mirror/app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node" already installed
Pass --update-binary to reinstall or --build-from-source to recompile

i guess the no-rebuild flag would be a good idea. in that case i could run node-deb on a debian build server with yarn and be done with it.

[heartsucker]

Fixed by c3a8c10 and 65b7f8c.