[CI][JS] Verification jobs on M1 for JS fail to compile due to TypeError calling Function.prototype.apply on undefined

[raulcd]

Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.

Our verification jobs for macOS ARM (M1) have been failing:

• verify-rc-source-integration-macos-arm64
• verify-rc-source-js-macos-arm64

With the following error:

 [07:54:03] Error: [07:54:03] 
'compile:es2015:umd' errored after 2.04 ms
[07:54:03] TypeError: Function.prototype.apply was called on undefined, which is a undefined and not a function
    at Lo (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:233359)
    at au (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:236294)
    at ou (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:236969)
    at Module.<anonymous> (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:304731)
    at require (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:288360)
    at file:///Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/gulp/closure-task.js:46:46
    at Array.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at closure (file:///Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/gulp/closure-task.js:43:60)
    at fn (file:///Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/gulp/memoize-task.js:31:41)
    at compile (file:///Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/gulp/compile-task.js:30:86)
[07:54:03] 'compile' errored after 4.85 ms

    at formatError (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/gulp-cli/lib/versioned/^4.0.0/format-error.js:21:10)
    at Gulp.<anonymous> (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/gulp-cli/lib/versioned/^4.0.0/log/events.js:33:15)
    at Gulp.emit (node:events:531:35)
    at Gulp.emit (node:domain:488:12)
    at Object.error (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/undertaker/lib/helpers/createExtensions.js:61:10)
    at handler (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/now-and-later/lib/mapSeries.js:47:14)
    at f (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/once/once.js:25:25)
    at f (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/once/once.js:25:25)
    at tryCatch (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/bach/node_modules/async-done/index.js:24:15)
    at done (/Users/voltrondata/github-actions-runner/_work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/js/node_modules/bach/node_modules/async-done/index.js:40:12)
[07:54:03] 'build:es2015:umd' errored after 23 s
[07:54:03] 'build:apache-arrow' errored after 23 s
[07:54:03] 'build' errored after 23 s
error Command failed with exit code 1.

M1's are self-hosted and might require to update a dependency manually but I am unsure on what the problem is.

Component(s)

Continuous Integration, JavaScript

[raulcd]

cc @domoritz @trxcllnt

[domoritz]

Odd. It works locally for me with Node 20 but not Node 21. Could this be an issue in v8: tc39/ecma262#2343 (comment)?

[domoritz]

It looks like we use node 21: Found NodeJS installation with version v21.5.x. Can we just downgrade to node 20 to make the release? I don't really know what's going on and it doesn't really matter since this is in the build script rather than Arrow itself so the version doesn't affect compatibility as far I can see.