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Some libraries fail to install if node is not present on the PATH #40
Description
I am trying to build a simple node app in an environment without NodeJS installed.
bazel build foo/src:bar_node_module
Most of the dependencies get installed successfully, but one package (chromedriver) fails with this error:
error /home/ubuntu/.cache/bazel/_bazel_ubuntu/9a9b3273327e7f32d450222011289241/external/bar-module-deps/node_modules/chromedriver: Command failed.
Exit code: 127
Command: node install.js
Arguments:
Directory: /home/ubuntu/.cache/bazel/_bazel_ubuntu/9a9b3273327e7f32d450222011289241/external/bar-module-deps/node_modules/chromedriver
Output:
/bin/sh: 1: node: not found
and referenced by '//foo/src:bar_node_module'
I believe the issue is in chromedriver's package.json file:
...
"scripts": {
"install": "node install.js"
}, ...
Since node is not present on the path, this step fails. Is there any way to get around this?
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pcj commentedon Oct 17, 2017
Think I have a fix for this in a larger PR that will prepend the node dir to $PATH in the launcher script. I hope to have that up by tonight.
pcj commentedon Oct 27, 2017
Should be fixed with #41. Pls re-open if this remains an issue @rohanag12.