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

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.