error when building node 7 series on OpenWRT + mips relying on uClibc

[artynet]

• Version: 7.2.1
• Platform: OpenWRT + MIPS + uclibc
• Subsystem: ar71xx

Hello folks, I have bumped into this syntax error when building the latest tarball of node.js for my embedded system 🔢

mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-g++ -pthread -rdynamic -EB -msoft-float -mips32r2 -L/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib -L/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/lib -L/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib -L/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/lib  -o /home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/mkpeephole -Wl,--start-group /home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/obj.target/mkpeephole/deps/v8/src/interpreter/bytecodes.o /home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/obj.target/mkpeephole/deps/v8/src/interpreter/mkpeephole.o /home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/src/libv8_libbase.a -Wl,--end-group -L/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib -lz -lcrypto -lssl -ldl -lrt
/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib/libcrypto.so: warning: gethostbyname is obsolescent, use getnameinfo() instead.
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/lib.host:/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../deps/v8/src; mkdir -p /home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/obj.target/v8_base/geni; "/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/mkpeephole" "/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/obj.target/v8_base/geni/bytecode-peephole-table.cc"
/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/mkpeephole: 1: /home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/mkpeephole: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
make[4]: *** [/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out/Release/obj.target/v8_base/geni/bytecode-peephole-table.cc] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/out'
make[3]: *** [node] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1'
make[2]: *** [/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/node-v7.2.1/.built] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/package/linino/node7'
make[1]: *** [package/linino/node7/compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05'
Build failed - please re-run with -j1 to see the real error message
make: *** [package/node7/compile] Error 1

can you help me to come up with a quick patch to solve this issue ? Thanks in advance

PS : I have successfully built the latest release of v6 series on my system and it seems to be working reasonably well :)

Best, Arturo

[gibfahn]

/home/arturo/Downloads/openwrt-15.05/staging_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib/libcrypto.so: warning: gethostbyname is obsolescent, use getnameinfo() instead.

^ Seems like the relevant line

[bnoordhuis]

Duplicate of #9707, sorry. You can find a potential workaround in #9869 (comment).