[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

[Bob Tracy]

Source: nodejs
Version: 4.7.2~dfsg-2
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

Dear Maintainer,

The subject package fails to build on alpha systems due to an inappropriate
selection of compiler flags during configuration.  In particular "-m32" is not
valid on alpha.

My guess is that a solution might look something like the current patch for "s390".

Installed gcc version is 6.3.0 20170205 (Debian 6.3.0-6).
Installed binutils version is 2.27.90.20170205

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: alpha

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)