[oe] [meta-oe] nodejs: no internationalization support

Raphael Kubo da Costa raphael.kubo.da.costa at intel.com
Wed Sep 19 11:15:32 UTC 2018


I originally filed
https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/issues/93 about this
but was told it's probably better to discuss it on the list.

The nodejs recipe currently builds node with --without-intl. That means
there's no internationalization support. One of the consequences of that
is is that the inspector module is not built at all.

Recent (at least M71 onwards) Chromium releases need the inspector
module as part of the build, so I wonder if the recipe can start
depending on ICU and pass --with-intl=system-icu to configure.py.

Using --with-intl=system-icu might require checking if the ICU version
provided in a branch matches the one Node expects; in the worst case, I
guess --with-intl=small-icu should work).

Is there any specific reason why --without-intl is being passed in the
first place?



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