problems installing and building on no.de [ Joyent node.js smartmachine ]

[gord]

[ fyi, Joyents no.de is a nice virtual host for Node.js.
Based on a solaris Zone, it has XFS and DTrace goodness,
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Anyway..

First I installed scons and libxml2, and checked xml2-config --cflags
works ok.

npm install libxmljs fails with :

Checking for C++ library xml2... no
Did not find libxml2, exiting!

So.. I grabbed a copy of libxmljs from git.
make fails for same reason.

btw, gcc/cc lives in '/home/node/local/bin/cc'
which is weird but kind of logical, as Im logged in as node user to
this environment.

To get past this initial problem I edited SConstruct scons make file
to fix path, replacing this :

#env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'Test' : testBuilder})
env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'Test' : testBuilder}, ENV = {'PATH' :
os.environ['PATH']})

So now it builds the cc files in src, but gives warnings '-KPIC
ignored' which I guess is meant to be -fPIC for gcc ?

Probably because of this, make test crashes with seg fault/core dump.


Not being an scons guru, I cant guess where to set -fPIC versus -
KPIC .. ideas ?

many thanks,

gord.
quantblog.wordpress.com

[Marco Rogers]

Thanks for the details. I've gotten a few reports about problems with libxmljs on no.de.  The environment has some key differences in the placement of various packages and build tools.  Unfortunately I'm also not a scons guru, so I'm not yet sure how to address this.  But I'll work on it as soon as I'm able.

:Marco

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