[Pkg-javascript-devel] nodejs 6.12.0 build failures on mips and mipsel

[Jérémy Lal]

2017-11-30 9:56 GMT+01:00 Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi at libpf.com>:

> I noticed that nodejs 6.12.0 fails to build on mips and mipsel:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nodejs&
> arch=mips&ver=6.12.0%7Edfsg-2&stamp=1511795079&raw=0
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nodejs&
> arch=mips&ver=6.12.0%7Edfsg-2&stamp=1510704638&raw=0
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nodejs&
> arch=mipsel&ver=6.12.0%7Edfsg-2&stamp=1510706722&raw=0
>
> searching for "not ok", it turns out that all three tests fail here:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/nodejs.git/
> tree/test/parallel/test-zlib.js?h=debian/6.12.0_dfsg-1#n153
>
> That test is still present in upstream master branch today:
> https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/test/parallel/test-zlib.js#L175
>
> I don't know why it fails, but I also noticed that currently upstream does
> not provide binaries for mips:
> https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.9.1/
> that perhaps indicates it's not so well tested there ?
>
> Probably we should just skip that test ?
>

I wanted to test if the failures happen when building using embedded
(latest) zlib.
However it did not go so well (remove the --shared flags in debian/rules
makes the
build fail and i don't understand why) and i'm extremely busy these days...

Jérémy
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