I'm trying to revive the build for an old, unmaintained library so that we can check in some changes (or publish a fork) that lets it play nicely with another updated library (namely Bootstrap 4, but that's not important for this question).
When trying a vanilla npm i, well, first I got some places where the library's package.json conflicted with its dependencies' dependencies because of ~ vs ^ conflicts -- the dependencies were more lenient about versions, so I changed a few dependencies in the main project from ~ to ^ to match. No big deal.
But then... npm i got bogged down where it looked like something was building before it eventually gave up.
The last line to display before it seems to hang is this:
⸨ ⸩ ⠴ reify:rxjs: timing reifyNode:node_modules/selenium-webdriver Completed in 8604ms
It then calls clang and make over and over for a while (on macOS Big Sur, and I can see the commands in the terminal's title bar), before finally re-entering npm i and puking all over the place.
The puke starts with:
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: connect 1.x series is deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: core-js@<3.3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of issues. Because of the V8 engine whims, feature detection in old core-js versions could cause a slowdown up to 100x even if nothing is polyfilled. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: core-js@<3.3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of issues. Because of the V8 engine whims, feature detection in old core-js versions could cause a slowdown up to 100x even if nothing is polyfilled. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Applications/projects/angularjs-dropdown-multiselect/node_modules/node-sass
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node scripts/build.js
This question seems at least similar, as it has similar issues with node-sass, but the library doesn't have node-sass anywhere in the its package.json, which suggests it's a dependency of a dependency that's grabbing node-sass... so I'm not sure how to edit the node-sass dependency from where I'm at without guessing at a lot of dependency versions.
Trying to install core-js@latest
Okay, fine. Let's try to install core-js greater than 3.3 and see if we can force that to work somehow.
In fact, let's try getting the latest (looks like that's 3.13 atm)...
npm i -D core-js@latest
And here's the weird thing:
That gives me the same errors!
As in literally the same stuff:
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: core-js@<3.3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of issues. Because of the V8 engine whims, feature detection in old core-js versions could cause a slowdown up to 100x even if nothing is polyfilled. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js.
Huh? core-js@latest requires core-js@<3.3 to build?
What's going on here?
More logging!
I'm going to try to select stuff that looks useful from the log screed after the npm Err! I pasted above, in case it's useful. To be clear, this is from the first attempt at npm i for the entire library, and IS NOT for npm install -D core-js@latest.
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp verb cli [
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '/usr/local/bin/node',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '/Applications/projects/angularjs-dropdown-multiselect/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli 'rebuild',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '--verbose',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '--libsass_ext=',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '--libsass_cflags=',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '--libsass_ldflags=',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli '--libsass_library='
npm ERR! gyp verb cli ]
... then some flavor of this several times:
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` succeeded for `make` /usr/bin/make
npm ERR! gyp info spawn make
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [ 'V=1', 'BUILDTYPE=Release', '-C', 'build' ]
npm ERR! In file included from ../src/libsass/src/ast.cpp:2:
npm ERR! ../src/libsass/src/ast.hpp:1361:25: warning: loop variable 'numerator' of type 'const std::__1::basic_string<char>' creates a copy from type 'const std::__1::basic_string<char>' [-Wrange-loop-analysis]
npm ERR! for (const auto numerator : numerator_units())
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! ../src/libsass/src/ast.hpp:1361:14: note: use reference type 'const std::__1::basic_string<char> &' to prevent copying
npm ERR! for (const auto numerator : numerator_units())
npm ERR! ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
npm ERR! &
npm ERR! ../src/libsass/src/ast.hpp:1363:25: warning: loop variable 'denominator' of type 'const std::__1::basic_string<char>' creates a copy from type 'const std::__1::basic_string<char>' [-Wrange-loop-analysis]
npm ERR! for (const auto denominator : denominator_units())
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! ../src/libsass/src/ast.hpp:1363:14: note: use reference type 'const std::__1::basic_string<char> &' to prevent copying
npm ERR! for (const auto denominator : denominator_units())
npm ERR! ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
npm ERR! &
npm ERR! 2 warnings generated.
... before rounding out with this:
npm ERR! In file included from ../src/binding.cpp:3:
npm ERR! In file included from ../src/sass_context_wrapper.h:9:
npm ERR! In file included from ../src/custom_function_bridge.h:7:
npm ERR! ../src/callback_bridge.h:110:23: warning: 'Call' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
npm ERR! this->callback->Call(argv_v8.size(), &argv_v8[0])
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! ../src/binding.cpp:32:16: note: in instantiation of member function 'CallbackBridge<Sass_Value *, void *>::operator()' requested here
npm ERR! return bridge(argv);
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! ../../nan/nan.h:1741:3: note: 'Call' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
npm ERR! NAN_DEPRECATED inline v8::Local<v8::Value>
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! ../../nan/nan.h:106:40: note: expanded from macro 'NAN_DEPRECATED'
npm ERR! # define NAN_DEPRECATED __attribute__((deprecated))
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! 6 warnings generated.
npm ERR! ../src/create_string.cpp:17:25: error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'v8::String::Utf8Value'
npm ERR! v8::String::Utf8Value string(value);
npm ERR! ^ ~~~~~
npm ERR! /Users/myLogin/.node-gyp/14.15.1/include/node/v8.h:3294:5: note: candidate constructor not viable: no known conversion from 'v8::Local<v8::Value>' to 'const v8::String::Utf8Value' for 1st argument
npm ERR! Utf8Value(const Utf8Value&) = delete;
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! /Users/myLogin/.node-gyp/14.15.1/include/node/v8.h:3287:5: note: candidate constructor not viable: requires 2 arguments, but 1 was provided
npm ERR! Utf8Value(Isolate* isolate, Local<v8::Value> obj);
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! 1 error generated.
npm ERR! make: *** [Release/obj.target/binding/src/create_string.o] Error 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/Applications/projects/angularjs-dropdown-multiselect/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:277:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Darwin 20.3.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/Applications/projects/angularjs-dropdown-multiselect/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /Applications/projects/angularjs-dropdown-multiselect/node_modules/node-sass
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v14.15.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! Build failed with error code: 1
I'm afraid this is above my paygrade. What's going on?
Not sure if you're still looking for an answer, but in case anyone else is this command worked for me:
npm install --save core-js@^3