Various issues resolved - re buffertools and node-gyp rebuild

[RickCogley]

I wanted to make an issue here just to document some of the things I had to do to get this working, although everything appears to be working now.

I'm installing hubot on a Webfaction shared server, running Centos6 and had to do a few things.

After cd-ing to my webapps/hubot application folder, I had to do an export PATH=$PWD/bin/:$PATH to make sure bin/hubot can be found.

Upgrade npm to 3.3.9 by doing:

npm install -g npm

Make sure npm uses python 2.7 by doing:

npm config set python /usr/local/bin/python2.7

Update node-gyp:

npm install -g node-gyp

Tell node-gyp to use python 2.7, too:

node-gyp --python /usr/local/bin/python2.7

After those steps, a number of problems went away, but, it still wouldn't work fully, claiming "Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.". Confirming on both buffertools and node-gyp repos, it appears you need a more advanced gcc, than what is provided by default for Centos6, which is what Webfaction maintains by default.

So, you then setup GCC 4.8+, which is C++11-capable, per: https://community.webfaction.com/questions/14581/compiling-gcc-48

The gcc upgrade takes quite a while, so it's best to do a screen session and run it in that. When it is done, you can exit and re enter your terminal, try npm upgrade again, and voilà!, it works.

[MaxBittker]

@RickCogley Thanks for writing this down, helped me out today with my raspberry pi project!

[RickCogley]

hi Max, glad to hear it.

On 2016 Oct 18, at 12:05, Max Bittker [email protected] wrote:

@RickCogley https://github.com/RickCogley Thanks for writing this down, helped me out today with my raspberry pi project!

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