Native packages on nodePackages for nixpkgs #71
Description
I'm trying to follow the instructions for https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/node-packages
But there's nothing talking about how to deal with npm packages that require the usage of node-gyp.
Specifically I'm trying to add dat to Nixpkgs.
So I added dat to the node-packages-v4.json. Ran the generate.sh.
Then after I tried a nix-build -A nodePackages_6_x.dat. It eventually resulted in this error:
> node-gyp-build "node preinstall.js" "node postinstall.js"
sh: node-gyp-build: command not found
npm ERR! Linux 4.9.57
npm ERR! argv "/nix/store/hxh3ii14s2982w5qm257wr2ms2df1jmj-nodejs-6.11.5/bin/node" "/nix/store/hxh3ii14s2982w5qm257wr2ms2df1jmj-nodejs-6.11.5/bin/npm" "--registry" "http://www.example.com" "--nodedir=/nix/store/1m3xr12sc9d5ckdy7znnszs52vdy3jxz-node-sources" "--production" "rebuild"
npm ERR! node v6.11.5
npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp-build "node preinstall.js" "node postinstall.js"`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp-build "node preinstall.js" "node postinstall.js"'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the sodium-native package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp-build "node preinstall.js" "node postinstall.js"
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs sodium-native
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls sodium-native
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /nix/store/a207hmhxr9nsjhs408rjljy7dvynmp1c-node-dat-13.9.2/lib/node_modules/dat/npm-debug.log
builder for ‘/nix/store/5gj9zw4hhwzanycak7g9wd2h2pyrcbaj-node-dat-13.9.2.drv’ failed with exit code 1
error: build of ‘/nix/store/5gj9zw4hhwzanycak7g9wd2h2pyrcbaj-node-dat-13.9.2.drv’ failed
I can use node-gyp normally in my shell.nix (when I'm developing with packages that require this), but how do I get this working for node2nix in Nixpkgs?
I do something like this:
{
pkgs ? import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-chan
}:
with pkgs;
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "js-virtualgit";
buildInputs = [ nodejs-8_x nodePackages_6_x.node-gyp blas flow
}
When doing the above, npm install dat works perfectly.
Is there some override that has to be set?
Also I found that since I'm running on the older node2nix, the 1.3.0, it overwrote a bunch of changes you made to the nodePackages directory recently. Shouldn't the generate.sh fix the hash of node2nix that you want us to use for PRing new node packages?