make test error - Error: Cannot find module '../../tools/eslint'

[yucatan]

• Version: 6.14
• Platform: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic Add a Gitter chat badge to README.md #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 10 10:59:38 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Guys, I know this is a very old version but I would assume such old issue wouldn't show up again.
I am trying to install node.js 6.14 on a Ubuntu Server 18.04. Yes, I know it's a very old version of node.js, but the software I was asked to install relies on node.js 6.x :(

When I run 'make test' I get:

[  PASSED  ] 38 tests.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/yucatan/node-v6.14.4'
/usr/bin/python2.7 tools/test.py --mode=release -J \
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=== release test-eslint-lowercase-name-for-primitive ===                       
Path: parallel/test-eslint-lowercase-name-for-primitive
module.js:478
    throw err;
    ^
Error: Cannot find module '../../tools/eslint'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:476:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yucatan/node-v6.14.4/test/parallel/test-eslint-lowercase-name-for-primitive.js:5:49)
    at Module._compile (module.js:577:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
Command: out/Release/node /home/yucatan/node-v6.14.4/test/parallel/test-eslint-lowercase-name-for-primitive.js
=== release test-eslint-number-isnan ===                                   
Path: parallel/test-eslint-number-isnan
module.js:478
    throw err;
    ^

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Any tips on how to solve this?

Thanks for your time and attention

[richardlau]

Are you building from the src tarball? IIRC we exclude tools/eslint from that (it's there in the git tree).

On later versions of Node.js we added code to the relevant tests to skip them if tools/eslint was missing (i.e. building from the src tarball): #20372
This hasn't been backported to 6.x (and would not now as 6.x is in maintenance).

[yucatan]

Yes, I am buidling from the 6.14 tarball. I just don't get it. It needs eslint to proper test, but I can't build/install eslint if I don't have node/npm installed. I am lost on how to fix this :(

[richardlau]

@yucatan You could try building from the source code archives that GitHub creates (as opposed to the ones our release scripts build) from https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v6.14.4 (e.g. https://github.com/nodejs/node/archive/v6.14.4.tar.gz).

[Trott]

Another thing you can do to work around is remove line 127 ($(MAKE) lint) from the Makefile.

Or you can simply accept that the tests passed since linting is the last thing the tests do in that version of the Makefile.

[Trott]

I'm going to close this as we're not going to go back and change the source tarball for that release. But if you continue to have questions/issues around this, feel free to keep commenting.