Ninja not deployed to s390x and ppcle machines

[MylesBorins]

nodejs/node#19201 (comment)

Can we get that fixed?

[MylesBorins]

Ping @nodejs/build @rvagg @mhdawson

This is blocking nodejs/node#19201

[mmallick-ca]

We are looking into this, we will probably need a set of ansible scripts to pull and build from ninja source on these platforms.

[MylesBorins]

Would it be possible for someone to test locally and chime in on the thread if the test suite passes or not?

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[mhdawson]

We've been working to get GN for PPC and s390x included in the google dev_tools but I see we've not made it in time to avoid problems.

I think for now we can install temporarily on the machines themselves.

Depending on how long we think getting them into dev_tools is going to take we may want to update the ansible scripts to build/install them, but I'd prefer they are pulled from the dev_tools like other platforms as that validates that v8 can be built more generally.

[MylesBorins]

/cc @nodejs/v8-update

[refack]

If it's just ninja I'd manually build it so that nodejs/node#19201 is unblocked. IMHO landing that and getting it tested will be very beneficial.
Any strong objections?

P.S. AFAICT it's also missing for ppc64le (is the deprecation complete?)

[refack]

P.S. AFAICT ninja is only required to smoke test V8 with it's own test suite. V8 can still be built with node's scaffolding RE: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit/17391/

[mhdawson]

Its more than that, we believe we need GN as well and we are working on compiling that now.

[mhdawson]

ppc64le is NOT deprecated, it was only the be version which is not part of this job as I've already removed it.

[mhdawson]

We had pre-built binaries that we had used for earlier testing, but they have glibc dependencies that prevent them from running on the community CI machines.

We are currently working on building on the CI machines as a temporary work around.

[refack]

ppc64le is NOT deprecated

In that case I'm assuming GN / ninja will be needed for ppcle-ubuntu1404 as well... (hopefully that's also taken care of 🤞 )

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[mhdawson]

Yes working on it for both PPC and s390

[mhdawson]

So we added gn and ninja binaries for PPC and there are still some issues as it is trying to use the x86 version of gn. @mmallick-ca will have a deeper look so that we can figure out how long we think it will take to fix it up.