[ptxdist] nodejs build problems

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

Hello folks,

This is my first time trying to build nodejs for arm-v7a-linux-gnueabif 
and I'm not having much luck.  It's failing at the "nodejs.prepare" 
stage in the `try_check_compiler(CXX, 'c++)` call in "configure.py:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/mnt/lindata/work/abbotti/ptxdist/projects/its-ipt4-demo/platform-its-ipt4v2/build-target/node-v20.11.0/./configure", 
line 29, in <module>
Node.js configure: Found Python 3.11.2...
     import configure
   File 
"/mnt/lindata/work/abbotti/ptxdist/projects/its-ipt4-demo/platform-its-ipt4v2/build-target/node-v20.11.0/configure.py", 
line 2026, in <module>
     check_compiler(output)
   File 
"/mnt/lindata/work/abbotti/ptxdist/projects/its-ipt4-demo/platform-its-ipt4v2/build-target/node-v20.11.0/configure.py", 
line 1038, in check_compiler
     ok, is_clang, clang_version, gcc_version = try_check_compiler(CXX, 
'c++')
 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File 
"/mnt/lindata/work/abbotti/ptxdist/projects/its-ipt4-demo/platform-its-ipt4v2/build-target/node-v20.11.0/configure.py", 
line 944, in try_check_compiler
     gcc_version = tuple(map(int, values[1:1+3]))
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '__STDC__'
make: *** [/usr/local/lib/ptxdist-2024.03.0/rules/nodejs.make:84: 
/mnt/lindata/work/abbotti/ptxdist/projects/its-ipt4-demo/platform-its-ipt4v2/state/nodejs.prepare] 
Error 1
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This is being built in a Debian 12 ("bookworm") schroot.  (I also get 
the same problem when building in my usual Debian "testing" environment.)

As you can see, I am using ptxdist-2024.03.0. The selected_toolchain is
`/opt/OSELAS.Toolchain-2023.07.1/arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-13.2.1-clang-16.0.6-glibc-2.37-binutils-2.40-kernel-6.3.6-sanitized/bin`.

I tried downgrading to the nodejs-v18.13.0 rules and patch series from 
ptxdist-2024.01.0, but it fails in the same way, so I think there is 
some incompatibility between that `try_check_compiler` function and the 
toolchain.

I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the same problem and managed to 
solve it?

Kind regards,
Ian

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