Re: nodejs compilation error

[Adam <adam%netbsd.org@localhost>]

> In file included from ../src/node_constants.h:27:0,
>                 from ../src/node_options.h:10,
>                 from ../src/inspector_agent.h:9,
>                 from ../src/env.h:29,
>                 from ../src/env-inl.h:28,
>                 from ../src/node_constants.cc:22:
> ../src/node_constants.cc: In function 'void
> node::{anonymous}::DefineSystemConstants(v8::Local<v8::Object>)
> ':
> ../src/node_constants.cc:1130:30: error: 'UV_FS_O_FILEMAP' was not
> declared in this scope
> NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, UV_FS_O_FILEMAP);
>                              ^
> ../src/node.h:433:54: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT'
>         v8::Number::New(isolate, static_cast<double>(constant));
> \
>                                                      ^
> 
> Can't build firefox because of this.
> 
> I ended up running make update in libffi and that has deleted many
> critical packages. I managed to recover by manually soft linking
> libffi.so.6.0.4 which was lying in /usr/pkg/lib despite the upgrade to
> libffi.so.6. Not a normal thing to do I suppose.
> 
> What will be a clean way when I want to build a new package that would
> update a lower level library that would invalidate several other critical
> packages that would not build! (Sorry for the length of that statement.)
> 
> May be I should be switching to using stable branches instead of
> pkgsrc-current? May be that has its own downsides...
> 
> Mayuresh

Does devel/libuv-1.35.0 compile for you?

What nodejs version are you trying to compile?

Do you use GCC or Clang?

Kind regards,
Adam