node failed to build after latest formula update

[dalguji]

node installation failed after doing "brew update && brew upgrade" yesterday.

I tried "brew install node" after "brew rm --force node", but it was the same. I doubt this issue is related to #34413

Any thoughts please?

[log] brew install node => http://pastebin.com/Rp4rq1c1
[log] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/npm-debug.log => http://pastebin.com/v0a45sDS
[log] brew gist-logs node => https://gist.github.com/dalguji/acd7b5f40293112043dd

[DomT4]

Node used to make heavy use of Xcode during the build process, so attempting to build with CLT-only used to be expected to generate the xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance message you are seeing.

However, this was supposed to have been fixed by this PR upstream at Node but perhaps something about the latest changes borked that. The last change was an npm update though, and to my knowledge npm doesn't require Xcode, although there have been issues on the tracker before about CLT-Only problems.

Try using this script and then doing brew install -v node again afterwards. There are some errors in the npm file you linked to that will be flushed out by this script, which may help.

If that doesn't work, IMO, unless one of the maintainers drops by to recommend something otherwise, I'd punt this back to Node for comment as to whether something could have triggered the Xcode requirement again.

[dalguji]

Thanks for your advice, @DomT4. I ran your script, terminatenode.sh on my machine. It looked like the script was trying to delete all Homebrew's /user/local/Cellar/* so I stopped it as below. Would it be an expected effect?

$ bash terminatenode.sh 
This will completely erase all traces of Node/npm from your system. You will be asked to enter your password for sudo. Proceed? (y/n)y
We'll make a backup of your npm installed list so you can reference it later if desired.
terminatenode.sh: line 7: npm: command not found
terminatenode.sh: line 8: npm: command not found
Lists have been created! You'll find them in whatever directory you are currently cd'ed into.

Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/node
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/atk/2.10.0...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/atk/2.12.0...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.25...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.26...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.27...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.28...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0...

Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0_1...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0_2...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/2.8.12...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/2.8.12.1...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/2.8.12.2...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.0.0...
^C
^C
If it says a file/folder can't be found, this is a good thing!
Password:
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[DomT4]

What you're seeing there isn't the script deleting Homebrew, but the script executing 'brew cleanup', which removes outdated things from the Cellar. It only uses internal Homebrew mechanisms for that stage, so there's no risk of it going rogue and deleting things it shouldn't be from Homebrew :).

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On 26 Nov 2014, at 06:24, dalguji notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for your advice, @DomT4. I ran your script, terminatenode.sh on my machine. It looked like the script was trying to delete all Homebrew's /user/local/Cellar/* so I stopped it as below. Would it be an expected effect?

$ bash terminatenode.sh
This will completely erase all traces of Node/npm from your system. You will be asked to enter your password for sudo. Proceed? (y/n)y
We'll make a backup of your npm installed list so you can reference it later if desired.
terminatenode.sh: line 7: npm: command not found
terminatenode.sh: line 8: npm: command not found
Lists have been created! You'll find them in whatever directory you are currently cd'ed into.

Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/node
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/atk/2.10.0...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/atk/2.12.0...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.25...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.26...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.27...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.28...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0...

Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0_1...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0_2...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/2.8.12...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/2.8.12.1...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/2.8.12.2...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.0.0...
^C
^C
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Password:
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[dalguji]

brew install node worked fine after running your script till the end. It seemed sudo rm -r /usr/local/lib/node_modules was one of the most critical parts to my machine. Thanks again. :)

[DomT4]

Awesome. Glad things are running normally again for you 👍. Absolutely no worries, more than happy to help.