npm install fails

[Raymond Brady]

Ubuntu fails on serialport 1.0.8 package at node-gyp rebuild.

node v0.10.3

[Jan Kolkmeier]

This is clearly a serialport issue, then. I've had problems earlier with different node and serialport versions. Does the latest version of serialport build fine? They have made a new major release which I must test with svd-xbee first, before including it in package.json.

[Raymond Brady]

Just tested... Latest version of serialport (v1.1.0) installs fine on Linux... But, not on Windows...

Also, tried installing serialport v1.0.8 standalone and it still fails. Definitely a serialport v1.0.8 issue.

[Jan Kolkmeier]

Right now I'm running node 0.8.x for my svd-xbee projects, which works fine with serialport v1.0.8 both on windows and on linux.

So I suggest people having issues with installing serialport either use node 0.8.x or use node 0.10, get svd-xbee from git and install whatever dependencies (serialport) are working for them by hand.

[Raymond Brady]

Thanks! I'll give that a shot...

[Martin Jarvis]

I am running node v0.10.9 on MacOS X and had the same problem with the install of the SerialPort module. I forked your project and changed the SerialPort dependency in the package.json file to:
"serialport": "1.1.x"
Seems to be working fine so far.

Any chance you would be updating your version any time soon?

[Jan Kolkmeier]

I'll have a look at it and update it if I can fix it for all platforms!