npm install fails using node 0.10.29

[smartmouse]

touch obj/js-config.h.stamp
g++ -o obj/jsapi.o -c -Wall -Wno-format -MMD -DXP_UNIX -DSVR4 -DSYSV -D_BSD_SOURCE -DPOSIX_SOURCE -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R -DLINUX -UDEBUG -DNDEBUG -UDEBUG_nodebot -DEDITLINE -I. -I./obj -Os -fstrict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -Wstrict-aliasing=2 jsapi.cpp
jsapi.cpp: In function ‘JSBool JS_ConvertArgumentsVA(JSContext_, uintN, jsval_, const char_, _va_list_tag)’:
jsapi.cpp:279: error: cannot convert ‘__va_list_tag**’ to ‘__va_list_tag ()[1]’ for argument ‘5’ to ‘JSBool TryArgumentFormatter(JSContext, const char**, JSBool, jsval**, __va_list_tag ()[1])’
jsapi.cpp: In function ‘jsval JS_PushArgumentsVA(JSContext*, void**, const char_, _va_list_tag)’:
jsapi.cpp:387: error: cannot convert ‘__va_list_tag**’ to ‘__va_list_tag ()[1]’ for argument ‘5’ to ‘JSBool TryArgumentFormatter(JSContext, const char**, JSBool, jsval*, __va_list_tag ()[1])’
make[5]: *** [obj/jsapi.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory /home/nodebot/testExpresso/node_modules/expresso/deps/jscoverage/js' make[4]: *** [all] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory/home/nodebot/testExpresso/node_modules/expresso/deps/jscoverage/js'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory /home/nodebot/testExpresso/node_modules/expresso/deps/jscoverage/js' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory/home/nodebot/testExpresso/node_modules/expresso/deps/jscoverage'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /home/nodebot/testExpresso/node_modules/expresso/deps/jscoverage' make: *** [deps/jscoverage/node-jscoverage] Error 2 npm ERR! expresso@0.9.2 preinstall:make deps/jscoverage/node-jscoverage`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the expresso@0.9.2 preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the expresso package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! make deps/jscoverage/node-jscoverage
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls expresso
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.0.101-0.31-default
npm ERR! command "/home/nodebot/node/bin/node" "/home/nodebot/node/bin/npm" "install" "expresso"
npm ERR! cwd /home/nodebot/testExpresso
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.14
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/nodebot/testExpresso/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
nodebot@host:~/testExpresso>

The platform is zLinux,
Is something wrong with my configuration? do you support zLinux ?

Any help will be appreicated.
Thank you so much,

[joransiu]

This compilation error on s390x is similar to the problem reported here on Darwin64: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436263

The issue is that in deps/jscoverage/js/jscpucfg.cpp, there following line also requires a define s390x in order to compile successfully on zLinux.

#if defined __GNUC__ && defined __x86_64__
    printf("#define HAVE_VA_LIST_AS_ARRAY 1\n");
    printf("\n");
 #endif

needs to be changed to:

#if defined __GNUC__ && ( defined __x86_64__ || defined __s390x__ )
    printf("#define HAVE_VA_LIST_AS_ARRAY 1\n");
    printf("\n");
#endif

[tj]

this library was deprecated years ago, better off using Mocha or something more recent

[smartmouse]

That is interesting. Thanks., The reason why this was raised - node-cache has a dependencies on
expresso.

[tj]

ahh gotcha