[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#999803: Bug#999803: missing dependencies in the emscripten package

[Ophir Lojkine]

> Debian packaging of emscripten provides executables in $PATH.
>
> Please try use those.

It's not me who is trying to use the executables from 
/usr/share/emscripten, it's emscripten itself. Notably, emcmake requires 
it in /usr/share/emscripten/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake, 
which is where I initially encountered the error, but the entire 
codebase of emscripten expects the executables to be present in 
EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT, which is /usr/share/emscripten/ in debian.

> emscripten 2.0.12~dfsg-2 depends on node-acorn, so the cause for above
> error must be a different one.

Well, you can try it yourself. The require in 
/usr/share/emscripten/tools/acorn-optimizer.js fails unless acorn is 
manually installed to  /usr/share/emscripten/node_modules.