Trying to build net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1 on a system that has gone 21 months without update reveals that "icu4c v70.1 is too old, v71.x or later is required". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See below. Actual Results: See below. Expected Results: See below. I am not a fan of frequent updating, so don't tell me to update. In a sense, Gentoo's thoughtful build infrastructure results in almost no pressure to upgrade the system as a whole: if I need a newer version of some package, I grab it into my local overlay and build it there. In 99% of the cases, this works - at least for a system that is up to ~2 years old, afterwards a fully system upgrade becomes more attractive. ;-) Using this method reveals sometimes interesting dependencies, like this one here: I grabbed net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1 into my local overlay and fired emerge. emerge failed because of the EAPI version (8), which does not work with the eclasses of a 21 months old system. So I downgraded EAPI to 7 and, by the way, also adapted the PYTHON_COMPAT array to fit my case: EAPI=7 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..10} ) This is a usual change that I need to make in the ebuilds, so it didn't bother me too much and gave it another try. This time emerge complained about a missing "filter-lto" command: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking node-v20.6.1.tar.xz to /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/work >>> Source unpacked in /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/work >>> Preparing source in /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/work/node-v20.6.1 ... * Applying nodejs-20.3.0-gcc14.patch ... patching file test/embedding/embedtest.cc Hunk #1 succeeded at 7 with fuzz 2 (offset 2 lines). [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/work/node-v20.6.1 ... /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/temp/environment: line 3672: filter-lto: command not found A search for "filter-lto" revealed that it was a new command introduced in the flag-o-matic eclass. No problem. Sometimes (very seldomly) I do have to replace an eclass here or there with a newer version. Again, I rely on Gentoo's thoughtful eclass programming, in the sense that the eclasses are well encapsulated, with minimal, if at all, coupling. Thus, to eliminate the above error, all I had to do was to replace (after taking a backup, of course) flag-o-matic.eclass with its current version: wget https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/eclass/flag-o-matic.eclass mv /usr/portage/eclass/flag-o-matic.eclass /usr/portage/eclass-backup-xxxx/ mv flag-o-matic.eclass /usr/portage/eclass/ Retrying emerge went further, this time complaining: * Applying nodejs-20.3.0-gcc14.patch ... patching file test/embedding/embedtest.cc Hunk #1 succeeded at 7 with fuzz 2 (offset 2 lines). [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/work/node-v20.6.1 ... ERROR: icu4c v70.1 is too old, v71.x or later is required. at which point I gave up with v. 20.x. I know from painful experience that upgrading icu will require a rebuild of dozens (if not hundreds) of installed packages - which is guaranteed to fail somewhere and requires restart of all X, at which point it's better to go with a full system upgrade[1]. net-libs/nodejs-18.17.1 was built and installed without problems, so I'm happy. :-) What did we learn from this old system? net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1 (and probably newer too) requires 1. A flag-o-matic eclass new enough to have the filter-lto command. 2. >=dev-libs/icu-71 for some operation, either for build-only, or even for running... I guess it is not possible to impose condition (1) above in an ebuild. But it is worth to impose (2), either as build-, or run-time dependency (or both). FWIW here is the complete error message from build.log - there is no more information than this (so it's not clear (to me) whether this is a build-only or runtime dependency too): ######################################################################### ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/work/node-v20.6.1 ... ERROR: icu4c v70.1 is too old, v71.x or later is required. * ERROR: net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1::XXX failed (configure phase): * (no error message) * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 127: Called src_configure * environment, line 3709: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * linux_use_bundled_gold=0" "${EPYTHON}" configure.py --prefix="${EPREFIX}"/usr --dest-cpu=${myarch} "${myconf[@]}" || die * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1::XXX'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1::XXX'`. * The complete build log is located at '/zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/zram/portage/net-libs/nodejs-20.6.1/temp/environment'. ######################################################################### Thank you --- [1] X has be going for as long as the system has been up here, which is quite long: uptime ...362 days,... During this period, quite a few documents/files remain open for reading, work etc., so restarting X would be a major interruption for me.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e16a2fe2810c851fac54f30caa2007d8e742d542 commit e16a2fe2810c851fac54f30caa2007d8e742d542 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-10-18 09:30:01 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-18 09:39:14 +0000 net-libs/nodejs: crank minimum version of icu Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/915946 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-20.6.1.ebuild | 2 +- net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-20.7.0.ebuild | 2 +- net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-20.8.1.ebuild | 2 +- net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-99999999.ebuild | 2 +- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
The minimum ICU version has been bumped to 73 for 21.0.0 (not in repo yet but also applies to 99999999 ebuild). https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/162a0652ab1a2198dc4eadee4134cbf84710a734
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b4a4cf8ec0a4a676ee0c8cf9dc92cd3c30c36834 commit b4a4cf8ec0a4a676ee0c8cf9dc92cd3c30c36834 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-10-20 01:39:20 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-20 01:39:20 +0000 net-libs/nodejs: crank ICU dep for 99999999 Cranked in 162a0652ab1a2198dc4eadee4134cbf84710a734. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/915946 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-99999999.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
