Re: [IBMiOSS] gmake: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

install ibmichroot from bitbucket (wasn't as straightforward as I would

have liked)

Would love to get feedback so I can make the documentation/installation
easier.

Note: I did not use a separate client to make the SSH connection to my

IBMi LPAR - I just did it from QP2TERM and connected to the box I was
already on.

What is accomplished by doing a "ssh localhost"? You still end up in
QP2TERM, though maybe in a new shell (i.e. bash). But you could enter a
bash shell by typing "bash <enter>" on the command line.



Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Yes that sums it up. The thread looks like a mess of diatribe and techno
babble but it really just boils down to being able to install node packages
that you need for your application. The fact that some need to compile
native c modules using node-gyp during the install is usually something you
only notice in passing on unix platforms. It just works. On Windows it
didn't work properly at all and there was a big furore about it. There is
a massive thread about it but ultimately a reasonable simple workaround to
get it going (
https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/629#issuecomment-153196245) was
posted by a lovely lady by the name of "mousetraps" :)

Lo and behold, similar issues exist for the IBMi. Once you have node.js
installed via the newly available group PTF, it turns out that in order to
install some of these packages I had to do the following:

install ibmichroot from bitbucket (wasn't as straightforward as I would
have liked)

One off task
=========
Call qp2term
cd /qopensys/ibmichroot
wget
http://www.oss4aix.org/download/everything/RPMS/libstdc++-devel-4.8.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
rpm --ignoreos --ignorearch --replacepkgs --nodeps -hUv
libstdc++-devel-4.8.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

Install packages, including those with native compiles
========================================
STRTCPSVR *SSHD (if need be)
call qp2term
ssh localhost
bash
export CC=gcc
npm install blah


Note: I did not use a separate client to make the SSH connection to my
IBMi LPAR - I just did it from QP2TERM and connected to the box I was
already on.

BUT I agree with Jon. We shouldn't have to worry about all this crap just
to install a package........and one day soon this will be the case I hope.
In many cases packages don't need to compile anything natively and you
don't need to worry about all this - just dive straight in to npm.