[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1003504: node-lodash: FTBFS with webpack5: TypeError: webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin is not a constructor

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:13:27 +0100 Caleb Adepitan 
<calebpitan at gmail.com> wrote:
 > We are starting to build against webpack5 in experimental and the
 > package needed for local build is webpack and node-webpack-source 
from
 > experimental.
 > During a test rebuild, node-lodash was found to fail to build in that
 > situation.

Raising severity since webpack 5 is in unstable now.

 > Relevant part (hopefully):
 >
 > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lib/fp/build-dist.js:25
 >      new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin,
 >      ^
 >
 > TypeError: webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin is not a 
constructor
 >      at Object.<anonymous> 
(/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lib/fp/build-dist.js:25:5)
 >      at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:999:30)
 >      at Object.Module._extensions..js
 > (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
 >      at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
 >      at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
 >      at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain]
 > (internal/modules/run_main.js:60:12)
 >      at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47
 > make[1]: *** [debian/rules:19: override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
 > make: *** [debian/rules:8: binary] Error 2
 > dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned 
exit
 > status 2
 > 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Build finished at 2022-01-08T15:26:45Z
 >
 > Finished
 > --------
 >
 >
 > The full log is attached to this mail.

The current failure is,

node lib/main/build-dist.js
node:internal/fs/utils:879
  throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE(
  ^

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "data" argument must be of type 
string or an instance of Buffer, TypedArray, or DataView. Received 
undefined
    at writeFile (node:fs:2110:5)
    at go$writeFile 
(/usr/share/nodejs/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:138:14)
    at Object.writeFile 
(/usr/share/nodejs/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:135:12)
    at Object.writeFile (/usr/share/nodejs/universalify/index.js:5:57)
    at minify (/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lib/common/minify.js:36:6)
    at apply (/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lodash.js:493:27)
    at wrapper (/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lodash.js:5382:16)
    at /usr/share/javascript/async/async.js:610:21
    at /usr/share/javascript/async/async.js:249:17
    at iterate (/usr/share/javascript/async/async.js:149:13) {
  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'
}