I’m going to start with the tl;dr version:
if you are experiencing this issue, and you have recently installed Node 4.x.x, then this is likely your issue.
Solutions?
Find another package, or use an older version of node for now if you absolutely must use that package.
The Longer Version
I had been trying to install “webkid-react-starterkit@0.3.1” on my Ubuntu dev box for ages last night, and spent a wasted 25 minutes again on it tonight.
The error was staring at me right in the face honestly:
gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:270:23) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 3.19.0-30-generic gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /home/chris/Development/php/dunglas-api-test/react-example/node_modules/jest-cli/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/contextify gyp ERR! node -v v4.2.1 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.0.3 gyp ERR! not ok npm ERR! Linux 3.19.0-30-generic npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" npm ERR! node v4.2.1 npm ERR! npm v2.14.7 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! contextify@0.1.14 install: `node-gyp rebuild` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the contextify@0.1.14 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the contextify package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls contextify npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /home/chris/Development/php/dunglas-api-test/react-example/npm-debug.log
It’s likely not as easy to see here, but on my terminal output, it’s colour coded and it’s rather glaringly obvious:
npm ERR! Failed at the contextify@0.1.14 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
I went round many houses.
From trying to install contextify globally, to completely reinstalling node, to even getting down to specifying the exact version of the v8 profile I wanted (npm install v8-profiler@3.6.2-1 ).
Nothing worked.
Anyway, it turns out it’s incompatible with this version of node all along.
NodeJS 4.0.0 only tagged as stable on 8th September 2015, and here I am running 4.2.1.
Buckle in, it’s going to be a wild ride.
