Compiling on Raspbian - Illegal instruction

[DominikPalo]

I tried to compile Node.JS v0.9.5 sources on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian 2012-12-16), but I got this error:

Node.JS v0.8.14 works fine.

[bnoordhuis]

That's probably due to the V8 upgrade. I see it's compiling with USE_EABI_HARDFLOAT=1 which is okay (I think). What is CAN_USE_VFP3_INSTRUCTIONS set to?

[TooTallNate]

Well I see -DCAN_USE_VFP3_INSTRUCTIONS in his compile flags so I'm guessing that's set to true. However, it must be set to false to work on the Raspberry Pi.

[TooTallNate]

This is fixed by v8 upstream in v8/v8@44419ad. @bnoordhuis should we back-port it to master branch?

[bnoordhuis]

Yes, sure.

[TooTallNate]

Should be fixed by 438e0c6.

[Pitel]

It's back:

git pull
make clean
./configure
make
...
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/node/out/Release/lib.host:/home/pi/node/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../deps/v8/tools/gyp; mkdir -p /home/pi/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni; "/home/pi/node/out/Release/mksnapshot" --log-snapshot-positions --logfile "/home/pi/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.log" --noenable_armv7 --noenable_vfp3 "/home/pi/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc"
Illegal instruction
make[1]: *** [/home/pi/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc] Error 132
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pi/node/out'
make: *** [node] Error 2

[bnoordhuis]

@Pitel Have you tried applying the patch?

[Pitel]

Yes, the patch from 438e0c6 seems to fix it.

[bnoordhuis]

Reapplied in cfacde3.

[michelepagot]

It's back
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/lib.host:/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../deps/v8/tools/gyp; mkdir -p /home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni; "/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/mksnapshot" --log-snapshot-positions --logfile "/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.log" "/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc"
Reaping winning child 0x1569cf0 PID 17151
Live child 0x1569cf0 (/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc) PID 17152
Reaping winning child 0x1569cf0 PID 17152
Live child 0x1569cf0 (/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc) PID 17154
Illegal instruction
Reaping losing child 0x1569cf0 PID 17154
deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8_snapshot.target.mk:13: recipe for target '/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/pi/prj/node/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc] Error 132

I manually apply patch
pi@mypi ~/prj/node $ grep -n -r CAN_USE_VFP3_INSTRUCTIONS deps/v8/build/*
pi@mypi ~/prj/node $ grep -n -r CAN_USE_VFP2_INSTRUCTIONS deps/v8/build/*
deps/v8/build/toolchain.gypi:129: 'CAN_USE_VFP2_INSTRUCTIONS',
deps/v8/build/toolchain.gypi:134: 'CAN_USE_VFP2_INSTRUCTIONS',
deps/v8/build/toolchain.gypi:140: 'CAN_USE_VFP2_INSTRUCTIONS',
pi@mypi ~/prj/node $

but toolchain.gypi is changed
pi@mypi ~/prj/node $ grep -n -r v8_use_arm_eabi_hardfloat deps/v8/build/*
pi@mypi ~/prj/node $

[XadillaX]

creating  ./icu_config.gypi
{ 'target_defaults': { 'cflags': [],
                       'default_configuration': 'Release',
                       'defines': [],
                       'include_dirs': [],
                       'libraries': []},
  'variables': { 'arm_float_abi': 'hard',
                 'arm_fpu': 'vfpv3',
                 'arm_neon': 0,
                 'arm_thumb': 0,
                 'arm_version': '6',
                 'clang': 0,
                 'gcc_version': 46,
                 'host_arch': 'arm',
                 'icu_small': 'false',
                 'node_install_npm': 'true',
                 'node_prefix': '/home/xadillax/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.5',
                 'node_shared_cares': 'false',
                 'node_shared_http_parser': 'false',
                 'node_shared_libuv': 'false',
                 'node_shared_openssl': 'false',
                 'node_shared_v8': 'false',
                 'node_shared_zlib': 'false',
                 'node_tag': '',
                 'node_use_dtrace': 'false',
                 'node_use_etw': 'false',
                 'node_use_mdb': 'false',
                 'node_use_openssl': 'true',
                 'node_use_perfctr': 'false',
                 'openssl_no_asm': 0,
                 'python': '/usr/bin/python',
                 'target_arch': 'arm',
                 'uv_library': 'static_library',
                 'uv_parent_path': '/deps/uv/',
                 'uv_use_dtrace': 'false',
                 'v8_enable_gdbjit': 0,
                 'v8_enable_i18n_support': 0,
                 'v8_no_strict_aliasing': 1,
                 'v8_optimized_debug': 0,
                 'v8_random_seed': 0,
                 'v8_use_snapshot': 'true',
                 'want_separate_host_toolset': 0}}
creating  ./config.gypi
creating  ./config.mk
make -C out BUILDTYPE=Release V=1
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out'
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/lib.host:/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../deps/v8/tools/gyp; mkdir -p /home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni; "/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/mksnapshot" --log-snapshot-positions --logfile "/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.log" "/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc"
Illegal instruction
make[1]: *** [/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc] Error 132
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xadillax/.nvm/src/node-v0.12.5/out'
make: *** [node] Error 2
nvm: install v0.12.5 failed!

[feklee]

Got an illegal instruction error as well:

node-v0.12.7 $ time make
[…]
ln -f "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_libbase.a" "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/libv8_libbase.a" 2>/dev/null || (rm -rf "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/libv8_libbase.a" && cp -af "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_libbase.a" "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/libv8_libbase.a")
  g++ '-DV8_TARGET_ARCH_ARM' '-DCAN_USE_VFP3_INSTRUCTIONS' '-DCAN_USE_VFP32DREGS' '-DENABLE_DISASSEMBLER' -I../deps/v8  -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -fno-strict-aliasing -mfloat-abi=hard -marm -O3 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-tree-vrp -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -O3 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -MMD -MF /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/.deps//home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/mksnapshot/deps/v8/src/mksnapshot.o.d.raw  -c -o /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/mksnapshot/deps/v8/src/mksnapshot.o ../deps/v8/src/mksnapshot.cc
  flock /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/linker.lock g++ -pthread -rdynamic  -o /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/mksnapshot -Wl,--start-group /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/mksnapshot/deps/v8/src/mksnapshot.o /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_base.a /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_nosnapshot.a /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_libplatform.a /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_libbase.a -Wl,--end-group -lrt
  LINK(target) /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/mksnapshot: Finished
  touch /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/postmortem-metadata.stamp
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/lib.host:/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../deps/v8/tools/gyp; mkdir -p /home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni; "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/mksnapshot" --log-snapshot-positions --logfile "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.log" "/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc"
Illegal instruction
deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8_snapshot.target.mk:13: recipe for target '/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc] Error 132
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/src/node-v0.12.7/out'
Makefile:45: recipe for target 'node' failed
make: *** [node] Error 2

real    2376m6.172s
user    251m55.250s
sys     8m27.430s

OS:

Linux raspberrypi 3.18.11+ #781 PREEMPT Tue Apr 21 18:02:18 BST 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux

same issue... on 0.12.7 :(