[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#921625: Bug#921625: node-gyp install fails

[tpikonen]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:43 PM, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
>> > I believe node on i686 is not supported and will segfault.
>> 
>> Do you mean node-gyp? At least nodejs.org offers x86 downloads of 
>> node
>> itself.
> 
> No, i meant nodejs.
> The debian package of nodejs, to be able to run on i686, need SSE2 
> (at least)
> which wasn't in the default set of features for the debian i386 port 
> (last time i checked),
> and the v8 x87 port that would have allowed that has been abandonned 
> upstream
> some years ago.
> Upstream nodejs is certainly using the "correct set of requirements", 
> which unfortunately
> does not always match the "set of features" of a given debian port.
> What exact CPU you're using might give more or less good results...

I see.

This has nothing to do with this bug anymore, but is there any way to 
get node working on Debian with a relatively recent i686 processor? (I 
have SSE2 in my HW, for example, and I get a segfault) If not, what is 
the point of Debian i386 node packages?

Best,
Teemu