[Buildroot] [PATCH] swig: enable support for Node.js >= 7.x

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Oct 8 18:50:31 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 19:16:11 +0200, Yegor Yefremov wrote:

> > To be honest, I hesitated a bit, those patches are a bit big and
> > invasive, and have not been merged upstream yet. I've merged anyway,
> > but we might need to drop them at the next swig bump if they haven't
> > been merged upstream.  
> 
> Thanks for merging. The problem is that the project lacks a Node.js
> maintainer. That's why none has applied the patch.

Hopefully with all the comments received in the github PR, the Node.js
maintainers will apply those patches.

> SWIG as such has nothing to do with Node.js directly, but it creates
> code, that will be compiled against node.js via node-gyp utility [1].
> BR uses newest Node.js version with removed obsolete APIs. That's why
> we need this patch, but SWIG has no direct dependency to host-nodejs.

OK, makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

Thomas
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