Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: nodejs
Version: 6.11.2~dfsg-3
Followup-For: Bug #855259

FTR, I'm seeing inappropriate use of the flags -m32, -msse2,
-mfpmath=sse, and -mmmx by the embedded copy of libv8 on alpha, hppa,
and sparc64.  None of these are release architectures, and if
supporting them is infeasible, so be it.  However, in that case, I
would encourage you to restrict nodejs's Architecture field so that
these architectures' autobuilders don't bother trying to build nodejs
or even install its build dependencies.

For that matter, per Policy 4.13, you really ought to use a separately
packaged build of libv8 if at all possible.  However, I see that the
latest packaged version is pretty old -- 3.14.5.8 vs. nodejs's
embedded 5.1.281.

Thanks!

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

[Bob Tracy]

Request bug closure with probable status of "won't fix".  Did not
realize what I was *really* asking for was a port of a Javascript JIT
compiler, which isn't going to happen for the alpha architecture (nor
any of several others represented in the Debian ports archive).

Original reason for filing this bug report is an inappropriate
dependency on this package by another.  A more appropriately
targeted bug report will be sent to the maintainer(s) of that package
requesting removal of the dependency on "nodejs".

Apologies for the noise.

--Bob

Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: severity -1 important

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:15:33 -0600 Bob Tracy  wrote:
> Source: nodejs
> Version: 4.7.2~dfsg-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source

alpha is not a release architecture. Thus downgrading to important.


Saludos

Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

[Bob Tracy]

Source: nodejs
Version: 4.7.2~dfsg-2
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

Dear Maintainer,

The subject package fails to build on alpha systems due to an inappropriate
selection of compiler flags during configuration.  In particular "-m32" is not
valid on alpha.

My guess is that a solution might look something like the current patch for 
"s390".

Installed gcc version is 6.3.0 20170205 (Debian 6.3.0-6).
Installed binutils version is 2.27.90.20170205

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: alpha

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)