[yocto] Yocto and NPM issues

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 03/21/2018 03:09 PM, Svein Seldal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm attempting to package a npm-based js application into a Rocko image, 
> and I'm having some issues. For testing I use the official poky repo and 
> the meta-openembedded repo (for installing nodejs 8.4.0). I'm building 
> for qemux86-64.

I know this is not an answer to your specific issues, but npm is a bit 
of maintenance nightmare as its workflow (downloading random stuff off 
the internet as an integral part of the build) clashes badly with how 
bitbake, and embedded world in general handle builds. We've discussed 
what to do about it, with no clear outcome, but we would like to have 
something that doesn't require constant fixing and hacks:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2017-March/000480.html


Alex