[Pkg-javascript-devel] Issues with coffeescript 1.9.1

[Arto Jantunen]

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:

> Quoting Arto Jantunen (2015-03-10 12:32:09)
>> Some developers here were requesting an update to coffeescript 1.9.1, 
>> I went looking for a packaged version and found out that it has 
>> already been merged in your team's git repo. I tried building this, 
>> but it doesn't quite work as is. Attached below are two patches that 
>> allow the package to build successfully.
>
> Ah, wonderful!  When the build failed I suspected I needed to fix 
> something in node-underscore, and from your patches I can see that I 
> simply made the silly error of including the wrong package.  Nice!

Yeah, the build was looking for a node module and not just the
javascript library, even though these are almost the same thing..

>> Sadly even with these applied the package doesn't work, failing with 
>> the following traceback:
>> 
>> /usr/bin/coffee 
>> 
>> module.js:340
>>     throw err;
>>           ^
>> Error: Cannot find module '../../bin/coffee'
> [...]
>> Apparently something goes wrong with the search path when looking for 
>> the modules, but my understanding of the node module system is 
>> somewhat limited. I'd greatly appreciate any help with solving this.
>
> That should be easy to catch (and thanks for saving me a roundtrip!).  
> Issue is that Nodejs modules are assumed to be installed in the home 
> directory - system-wide path is a Debian "speciality".  So any time a 
> module walks the file system to get to other modules, we need to patch 
> it to walk differently.

I see you commited the fix already, and the resulting package seems to
work fine. Thanks a lot for your quick and efficient response.

-- 
Arto Jantunen