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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:17 AM Raphael Kubo da Costa
<raphael.kubo.da.costa at intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

right, it is there for size reasons. ICU is kind of large and since
debugger uses it, when we disable ICU debugger is disabled too.

I think we could make it a packageconfig and enable/disable debugger
support that way if you care to send a patch, I can look into
integrating it.

> 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?