On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 12:57 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > I started writing this in the ticket for node-v12.18.0 (#13628), > but the C++ scope errors when using system nghttp2 prompted me to go > with 12.18.0 for the moment. And then I discovered that the same > FTBFS occurred in 12.18.0, but right at the end of the build instead > of very early on. <sigh/> > > I'm fairly sure we have stuck to v12 at my suggestion, based on > https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/ (v12 is 'active' until 20th > October, v14 is now 'current' i.e. development). However, python2 > has had its last release and I keep hoping that browsers > (specifically firefox and falkon via qtwebengine) will eventually > no-longer require it. Node v12 will always require python2, but > python3 was added in v13 (which is now EOL) and is preferred if > found. >
I've been building nodejs 12 for quite some time without python2 with the following patches. https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/be926c7e21ddf0e24e26b7a74aabda66e91a9da5.patch https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b2ccbb27dc98dfd771d7d5592e139e2001baa56c.patch https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3a076bae9c256a830353cf47170599d30baa6c1b.patch Regards, Wayne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
