On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 16:24, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02 PM Elliott Sales de Andrade > <quantum.analyst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Let's try this again, but CC'ing the package owners. > > > > On 2019-02-17 9:12 p.m., Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Sorry for resurrecting a long-dead thread, but a few things happened recently: > > > 1. v8 was just retired last week or so, > > > 2. R-V8 just ported itself from v8-314 to v8 LTS 6/7. > > > > > > Currently, R-V8 supports both v8-314 and v8, but as the latter fixes several downstream package issues, it is the recommended build target. I expect that eventually they will stop supporting 314 as well. This leaves me in a bit of a pickle as it does not bundle v8 and neither I nor upstream have any plans to build it ourselves. > > > > > >> For all of these same reasons, the Node.js SIG opted to carry a bundled > > >> copy of v8 in that package as well. I think we should move to have v8 > > >> considered to be a copylib for all reasonable purposes within Fedora. > > > > > > In Debian, the nodejs package provides a stable *shared* v8 library, and the recommended install is against libnode-dev. Unfortunately, in Fedora, while nodejs-devel provides v8.h, it does *not* provide any shared library. > > > > > > Is this something we can also do in Fedora, i.e., split out a nodejs-libs subpackage, or similar? > > > > > > I've been keeping the Node.js packages in Fedora alive, but on > life-support, for a couple years now. I don't have the cycles to look > into a significant rework of how they're designed. If you have ideas > for how to do what you're asking, I will happily review a pull request > to http://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nodejs OK, I've sent a pull-request to do so [1]. It essentially mimics what the Debian package does (pass --shared and then manually install the executable since their script will only install one or the other.) The other changes just make sure paths are correct for tests to work. It works for me [2] to build R-V8 (though copr gets stuck building nodejs on x86_64 for some reason.) [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nodejs/pull-request/4 [2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/qulogic/nodejs-R-V8/builds/ -- Elliott _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
