Add note on requiring Xcode to npm install / build

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Add note on requiring Xcode to npm install / build

rayshan opened this issue 11 years ago · comments

Ray Shan commented 11 years ago

Hi, install appears to fail if Xcode is not present. Assuming this is for the CLI tool?

Andrew Kelley commented 11 years ago

ahh I see

Andrew Kelley · Answer 1 · Fri Nov 08 2013 02:58:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

make: Entering directory `/home/andy/tmp/npmtest/node_modules/swig-email-templates/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/contextify/build'

looks like it's swig-email-templates -> jsdom -> contextify

jsdom is a core dependency; it's not going away.

Ray Shan · Answer 2 · Fri Nov 08 2013 03:07:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks, I should have said that I recommend adding a note about this, didn't mean to suggest that it should go away.

Andrew Kelley · Answer 3 · Tue Dec 24 2013 00:24:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

although this is not a bad idea, I think that it is ok for node modules to make the assumption that they can do native modules if they need to. So I'm going to close this issue.