Hey, just wanted to mention that I'm installing bcrypt as part of a user-data script on Amazon EC2, which uses node-gyp to compile some binaries. However, because node-gyp expects either HOME or USERPROFILE to be defined in the environment, and EC2 doesn't set either of these environment variables itself when running the userdata script as root, the installation fails with the following traceback:

path.js:313
        throw new TypeError('Arguments to path.resolve must be strings');
              ^
TypeError: Arguments to path.resolve must be strings
    at Object.exports.resolve (path.js:313:15)
    at new Gyp (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/node-gyp.js:49:22)
    at gyp (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/node-gyp.js:39:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js:20:12)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)

I was able to resolve this by defining HOME in my script, but it took me a while to figure this out. Perhaps this story can be used as a use-case in figuring out a solution to this problem--or at the very least, perhaps someone who stumbles into the same problem as me finds this comment in the future helpful.

Uh oh!

Make the dev installation directory configurable (~/.node-gyp) #21

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