Building from source fails on FreeBSD 10

[attilagyorffy]

I'm trying to install sqlite3 on a FreeBSD 10 box and am running into issues. First of all as far as I'm concerned (and based on the log output) you currently do not provide pre-built binaries for this platform and the install falls back to trying to build from source. This eventually fails with the following;

python: not found

I have a standard python2.7 install and have configured npm according to the node-gyp README:

$ npm config get python
/usr/local/bin/python2.7

Now I am not sure what actually happens (and this is merely a guess!) but having seen the action_before_build target in the build dependencies I wonder: Could it be that the pre-build step does not respect the npm config variable and tries to invoke the python command directly?

See this.

Either way, I'm using the following configuration:

$ npm config get python
/usr/local/bin/python2.7
$ node --version
v4.2.3
$ npm --version
3.5.2
$ uname -a
FreeBSD vagrant 10.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 15:26:37 UTC 2015

Logs attached here:
npm-debug.log.zip

Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.

[attilagyorffy]

I think I'm right in thinking that the hardcoded interpreter python in the action_before_build target in https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/blob/master/deps/sqlite3.gyp#L58 is the issue.

Whilst I could get the npm package to manually install, I'd consider the symlink to be a hack and would not consider using this approach during package building for example.

Whilst I'm not familiar with node-gyp, as far as I understand it should be able to use the right python interpreter (see my link to the README above).

[charlienewey]

Hi, not sure if you found a solution yet, but two things helped me;

• ensure gmake installed
• CXX="c++" npm install sqlite3 --sqlite=/usr/local/bin # wherever sqlite3 is installed

[attilagyorffy]

i've got gmake installed on the system, as well as sqlite3 form packages. However the solution above doesn't seem to work:

npm ERR! sqlite3@3.1.1 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 126

[charlienewey]

From here, exit status 126 seems to suggest that "the command is found but is not executable". Maybe some permissions need fixing? Check permissions on node-pre-gyp executable, perhaps. Good luck!

[attilagyorffy]

@charlienewey i guess i should bring this up in the node-gyp repo as I don't think I have a node-pre-gyp executable. node-gyp is a dependency of sqlite3 and so i'd expect npm to download and execute it during install.

[lapo-luchini]

I also worked this around by (temporarily) adding a symlink from python to python2.7 but I agree that this should probably avoid hardcoding the command name and use the global setting as suggested in the node-gyp README.

[daniellockyer]

Would you be able to try with v5.0.3? 🙂