[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH v2] nodejs: cleanup and update

[Trevor Woerner]

On 12/18/15 06:51, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:19:25PM -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> Remove old nodejs_0.4.12 and update nodejs_0.12.7 to the latest stable
>> nodejs_4.2.2.
> It does something strange with CC and ends with invalid parameter for
> qemuarm:
>
> arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-g++: error: unrecognized argument in option '-mfpu=vfpv2'
>
> http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/22678/

Nodejs (actually V8) dropped support for ARMv5 around V8 version 3.22
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3061

A day or so ago I had generated a patch to switch the -mfpu option to
"vfp" (i.e. version 1) instead of vfpv2 (-mfpu=vfp). This allowed nodejs
to build for ARMv5, but when I tried running it, it just crashed and
said "illegal instruction". Since ARMv5 is not supported upstream
anymore I didn't think it was worth my time trying to get it to work. So
I simply removed armv5 from COMPATIBLE_MACHINE. See my v3 patch.

As to this specific error, it doesn't look like gcc5 accepts "vfp2" as
an option to mfpu:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/ARM-Options.html