nodejs fails to build on arm64 due to libv8 dependency

[Micheal Waltz]

Attempting to build the nodejs package from source on Trusty and Vivid fails due to missing the dependency on libv8-3.14-dev.

lsb_release -a:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

uname -a:
Linux tael 3.13.0-46-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 2 18:27:27 UTC 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Build log:
dget --allow-unauthenticated --build https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/nodejs_0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.dsc
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/nodejs_0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.dsc
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/nodejs_0.10.25~dfsg2.orig.tar.gz
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/nodejs_0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: extracting nodejs in nodejs-0.10.25~dfsg2
dpkg-source: info: unpacking nodejs_0.10.25~dfsg2.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking nodejs_0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying 2001_FHS_and_rename_to_nodejs.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2004_relax_failing_test.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2005_expected_failing_tests.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2010_fix_makefile_missing_zlib.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2011_mipsel.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2012_kfreebsd.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2013_gyp_noparallel_compat.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 1001_readfile_eisdir.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 1002_increase_timeout_in_test.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 1003_test_disable_chunked_response.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 1004_test_writeNaN.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 1005_restore_sh_javascript_nonminified.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2014_powerpc_support.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 2015_ppc64el_configure.patch
dpkg-buildpackage: source package nodejs
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution trusty
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Adam Conrad <email address hidden>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture arm64
 dpkg-source --before-build nodejs-0.10.25~dfsg2
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: pkg-config zlib1g-dev libv8-3.14-dev (>= 3.7) libssl-dev (>= 1.0.0g) libc-ares-dev (>= 1.7.5)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

The libv8 package currently fails to build on arm64, and bug filed against itl: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libv8-3.14/+bug/1435432

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Adding a block-proposed tag to this to keep 4.0.0 in -proposed until it gets some testing. 4.0.0 should fix this bug, however.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is this still blocked? It built everywhere and all autopkgtests succeeded.

[dann frazier (dannf)]

@pitti: I wanted to test on arm64 - since that's a new nodejs architecture - but I didn't see any existing autopkgtests in the nodejs source package - are the tests you are talking about from another package that depends on it?

I went ahead and wrote some smoketests and submitted them to Debian:
  https://bugs.debian.org/802735

I've verified they pass on arm64, so +1 unblocking this for xenial.