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

I will document the ibmichroot pain I went through. I was all around getting ssh authentication working properly and have no agent running by default.

With regard to your second point, if I do this:
Call qp2term
Bash
and then try to use npm, gmake fails with the "virtual memory exhausted" error

if I do this:
call qp2term
ssh localhost

then I end up in "bsh" (not "bash") and npm and gmake work BUT you cannot simply set environment variables with "export". Instead you have to do (for example) "CC=gcc" followed by "export CC"

So that is why I go to "bash" before doing anything - simple laziness. It enables me to set environment variables with one statement "export CC=gcc"

This behaviour seems consistent across all our LPARS - some of which are virgin set-ups.

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenSource [mailto:opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: 14 July 2016 00:32
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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.

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