At the moment the only JavaScript runtime our execjs ebuilds depend on is net-libs/nodejs. Node upstream does not officially support 32-bit PPC, none of the versions currently in Gentoo even build on that arch, and the lone ebuild still keyworded for it (solely for the purpose of not breaking the execjs dependency tree) is due for security cleaning. According to the execjs home page, duktape-rb is not only supported but actually preferred (as per both the README and the evaluation order in the code) to Node.JS. It also appears to work fine on PPC32. Note that should you choose to revbump execjs while making this change (probably not necessary given the aforementioned build failures in node), the revbump should go straight to stable on ppc.
I've opted to add a new revision for this to also update the EAPI. I have also listed duktape-rb as the first option. Since it is embedded there is a huge difference in running the test suite: 0.5s for duktape vs 9.5s for nodejs. I have some compatibility concerns for ES6/7 feature differences in duktape vs node in real-world scenarios but given the speed-up bonus I'd say that is a good trade-off. Note that going straight to stable is not possible since duktape-rb is not stable.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c4ca787fbe41ec1e4489704931e1912f45194a68 commit c4ca787fbe41ec1e4489704931e1912f45194a68 Author: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-11-21 08:52:49 +0000 Commit: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-11-21 08:52:49 +0000 dev-ruby/execjs: EAPI 7, add duktape-rb Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/754921 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.9, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> dev-ruby/execjs/execjs-2.7.0-r1.ebuild | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
Ah, duktape-rb is stable for ppc only. I have added a ppc stable keyword to the new execjs-2.7.0-r1, but I'd like to wait some time with other arches. I'm already seeing compatibility issues with this for projects at work.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=930e246410b9f585b6d6d54b57e9fe3fbbe5955d commit 930e246410b9f585b6d6d54b57e9fe3fbbe5955d Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-11-21 20:21:58 +0000 Commit: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-11-21 20:26:30 +0000 dev-ruby/execjs-2.7.0: drop ppc keyword The last net-libs/nodejs ebuild keyworded for ppc has just been removed due to security vulnerabilties, and it didn't actually compile on that arch anyway. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/754921 Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> dev-ruby/execjs/execjs-2.7.0.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
