The build is broken for Alpine v3.20

[AlexeyMoiseev]

The error message:

27.88 npm error *** Do not use buildconf. Instead, just use: autoreconf -fi
27.88 npm error configure.ac:120: installing './compile'
27.88 npm error configure.ac:317: installing './config.guess'
27.88 npm error configure.ac:317: installing './config.sub'
27.88 npm error configure.ac:120: installing './install-sh'
27.88 npm error configure.ac:125: installing './missing'
27.88 npm error docs/examples/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
27.88 npm error parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
27.88 npm error ./configure: line 6673: syntax error: unexpected ";;" (expecting "fi")
27.88 npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2024-05-27T13_13_59_769Z-debug-0.log

No problem with v3.19, the error was introduced with the latest v3.20 version.

[Loccko]

same

[swantzter]

Same on Arch Linux

[nykma]

After some digging on Nix build system, I found that if autoconf is locked on 2.71 (pkgs.autoconf271) , everything works fine.

Alpine 3.20 updated autoconf from 2.71 to 2.72, think this might be the reason.

[m-rph]

Hi, this is a known issue that affects all runtimes that currently use the native (C++ client).
Quoting this comment:

This is caused by the dependency on libcurl and the update on autoconf. We use libcurl to ensure consistent performance and minimize overhead. The update on autoconf included a change that broke some macros defined in the libcurl version used by the runtime interface client.

Our current recommendation is to pin the autoconf version with the provided work-around.

That is to say, pinning autoconf to 2.71 will provide a workaround for the foreseeable future.

Thanks,
Quinn

[swantzter]

I've gotten to a working spot by downgrading to alpine 3.19 to get a) autoconf 2.17, b) pthon 3.11 (node-gyp 9 is broken for python >= 3.12)

This mess seems to work at least

FROM node:20-alpine3.19 AS base
RUN apk update -q && apk upgrade
RUN apk add autoconf automake cmake g++ libtool make unzip curl-dev python3
RUN apk add --no-cache --update --repository=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/main/ libexecinfo-dev

[daverickdunn]

I gave up on alpine and managed to get debian 12 to work, though it too had the same error initially.

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/powershell:7.4-debian-12

RUN apt update
RUN apt upgrade -y

RUN apt install nodejs npm g++ make cmake unzip libcurl4-openssl-dev automake libtool -y

[m-rph]

Hi everyone, we've merged a patch on python that fixes this issue, we will be porting to this one promptly.

Quinn