Node modules available on the npm registry, may contain prebuild
binaries for various targets and/or ABIs; for example., there might be
ARM. AArch64, x86_64 binaries for glibc or musl, for Linux or Darwin.
Needless to say, those binaries will most often not match the current
target architecture; as such, check-bin-arch will whine loudly as
reported in #15823:
ERROR: architecture for "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-red-node-serialport/node_modules/@serialport/bindings-cpp/prebuilds/linux-arm/node.napi.armv6.node" is "ARM", should be "AArch64"
ERROR: architecture for "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-red-node-serialport/node_modules/@serialport/bindings-cpp/prebuilds/android-arm/node.napi.armv7.node" is "ARM", should be "AArch64"
ERROR: architecture for "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-red-node-serialport/node_modules/@serialport/bindings-cpp/prebuilds/linux-arm/node.napi.armv7.node" is "ARM", should be "AArch64"
ERROR: architecture for "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-red-node-serialport/node_modules/@serialport/bindings-cpp/prebuilds/linux-x64/node.napi.glibc.node" is "Advanced Micro Devices X86-64", should be "AArch64"
ERROR: architecture for "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-red-node-serialport/node_modules/@serialport/bindings-cpp/prebuilds/linux-x64/node.napi.musl.node" is "Advanced Micro Devices X86-64", should be "AArch64"
The proper solution would be to remove all those prebuilt binaries, and
request npm to forcefully rebuild the proper binary for the current
architecture; alas, there is no option to tell npm to do so.
Doing it manually would not be easy either, as such modules might be
retrieved as part of the "vendoring" for another module that the user
has requested, and be pretty deep in the dependency chain; trying to fix
this properly would be a nightmare: it would require that we manually
inspect the depednency chain, and install dependent modules one by one,
recursively, re-implementing the same logic npm has when multiple
verions of the same module are installed as part of different branches
of the depenency tree, all while detecting prebuilds and removing them
before installing the mpdule (hence decorrelating download and install,
which is not trivial to do with npm alone).
We also can't simply remove all the prebuilds, because it is not known
whether the location ("<module>/prebuilds/") is standardised, or a
convention with the path noted somewhere in the package metadata, and
how deep they would be in the tree, and whether that could conflict with
arbitrary files...
Instead, we will consider that npm has a sane heuristic to detect
whether it should indeed rebuilt the modules, and that node has a sane
heuristic to know which binary to load at runtime, and we will leave the
prebuilt binaries in place and just exclude them from being checked.
Fixes: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15823
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Marcus Hoffmann <marcus.hoffmann@othermo.de>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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