npm test on m1 hardware

[nichoth]

This is an npm issue, however npm is working fine for everything else, so I wonder why this is an error in this repo only.

ssb-db2 master % npm i
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm ERR! code 126
npm ERR! path /Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/sodium-universal/node_modules/sodium-native
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node-gyp-build
npm ERR! sh: /Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp-build: Permission denied

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/nick/.npm/_logs/2021-12-20T16_54_05_114Z-debug-0.log

[staltz]

Please give more details, like versions of node and npm, and version of ssb-db2 or whether you're installing it on master or something.

[nichoth]

thanks @staltz

This is on the master branch of ssb-db2

ssb-db2 master % npm --version
8.3.0
ssb-db2 master % node --version
v16.13.1

[staltz]

Thanks.

Just to rule out something, try node 12 or 14

[nichoth]

% nvm version
v14.18.2

So npm i seems to complete without an error on node version 14. However when I type npm test it returns this:

Error: No native build was found for platform=darwin arch=arm64 runtime=node abi=83 uv=1 armv=8 libc=glibc node=14.18.2
    loaded from: /Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node

    at Function.load.path (/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/node-bindgen-loader/index.js:62:9)
    at load (/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/node-bindgen-loader/index.js:27:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node/index.js:5:41)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:93:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/db.js:10:7)


npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

This is on a new mac computer with the m1 type of processor. Not sure if that has something to do with it.

[nichoth]

I have confirmed that npm test does work on the old computer, so it looks like it is just an error with new macs.

[staltz]

You might need nj-cli, and Rust. See the requirements for building ssb-validate2-rsjs-node

[nichoth]

Hmm thank you. I have been following the ssb-validate2-rsjs-node instructions, and if I run the instructions in the dependency dir, /Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node,

cargo install nj-cli
# generate release build of ssb-validate2-rsjs-node
npm run build

It returns this

error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node` or any parent directory

[nichoth]

Got the issue with Cargo.toml done (thanks @staltz)

Now when I try npm test it returns this

ssb-db2 master % npm test

> [email protected] test
> tape test/*.js | tap-spec

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1183
  return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
                 ^

Error: dlopen(/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node/dist/index.node, 0x0001): tried: '/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node/dist/index.node' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64e')), '/usr/local/lib/index.node' (no such file), '/usr/lib/index.node' (no such file)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1183:18)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at load (/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/node-bindgen-loader/index.js:27:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/nick/code/ssb-db2/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node/index.js:5:41)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) {
  code: 'ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED'
}

[nichoth]

Note for posterity

There is a forked version of this where the tests pass on current m1 mac -- https://github.com/planetary-social/ssb-db2/tree/tests

This is because we've switched out ssb-validate2-rsjs-node with ssb-validate2, because the latter does not depend on having a rust dependency for this architecture.

There is a node-bindgen-loader issue about this too. The short version is that it seems as though ssb-validate2-rsjs-node is not being compiled for m1.