CH 04 Access-Log displays errors for node-gyp during build

[TylerHaigh]

Exercise
Chapter 4
Section 4.3 - App walkthrough: Node.js source code
Page 54

Problem
node-gyp rebuild fails with error (but looks like error is suppressed and build can continue)

Docker version

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           20.10.16
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.17.10
 Git commit:        aa7e414
 Built:             Thu May 12 09:17:23 2022
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          20.10.16
  API version:      1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.17.10
  Git commit:       f756502
  Built:            Thu May 12 09:15:28 2022
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.6.4
  GitCommit:        212e8b6fa2f44b9c21b2798135fc6fb7c53efc16
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.1
  GitCommit:        v1.1.1-0-g52de29d
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

Code version

$ git log -n 1
commit 71384f8c09a8e0b3867a2c73ae09549774a21e85 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Elton Stoneman <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Mar 5 15:43:14 2021 +0000

    Bump Apache versions

Additional context

Full docker build log below

Sending build context to Docker daemon  8.704kB
Step 1/10 : FROM diamol/node AS builder
 ---> 9dfa73010b19
Step 2/10 : WORKDIR /src
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 24ddfdd809f5
Step 3/10 : COPY src/package.json .
 ---> 27e1fd4434f0
Step 4/10 : RUN npm install
 ---> Running in 5626cf1d85ff
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade to latest, formidable@v2 or formidable@v3! Check these notes: https://bit.ly/2ZEqIau
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.

> [email protected] install /src/node_modules/dtrace-provider
> node-gyp rebuild || node suppress-error.js

gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable.
gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.failNoPython (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:484:19)
gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:406:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at F (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:68:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at E (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:80:29)
gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:89:16
gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/isexe/index.js:42:5
gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/isexe/mode.js:8:5
gyp ERR! stack     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:153:21)
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /src/node_modules/dtrace-provider
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN [email protected] No license field.

added 138 packages from 188 contributors and audited 138 packages in 9.468s
found 0 vulnerabilities

Removing intermediate container 5626cf1d85ff
 ---> 780dde1a6dd7
Step 5/10 : FROM diamol/node
 ---> 9dfa73010b19
Step 6/10 : EXPOSE 80
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d6ea7f58046c
Step 7/10 : CMD ["node", "server.js"]
 ---> Using cache
 ---> e89fa2a06fed
Step 8/10 : WORKDIR /app
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 86f1b2c3cb4f
Step 9/10 : COPY --from=builder /src/node_modules/ /app/node_modules/
 ---> Using cache
 ---> fbd893f10962
Step 10/10 : COPY src/ .
 ---> 0fa9d6e8e2a7
Successfully built 0fa9d6e8e2a7
Successfully tagged access-log:latest

[TylerHaigh]

I do note that the book does say (immediately following) :

You’ll see a whole lot of output from npm (which may show some error and warning messages too, but you can ignore those).

Happy to close this if this is expected behaviour