Install fails on linux distributions that use "nodejs" as the binary name

[aez]

Installing contextify on latest Ubuntu (via docker in our case) fails:

The culprit seems to be binding.gyp, which specifies the binary as 'node' - on this distro, the binary is 'nodejs'.

> [email protected] install /code/node_modules/librato-node/node_modules/d3/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/contextify
> node-gyp rebuild

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/core-util-is
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/isarray/0.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/string_decoder
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/isarray/0.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/core-util-is
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/string_decoder
/bin/sh: 1: node: not found
gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 127. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:431:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.16.4-tinycore64
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /code/node_modules/librato-node/node_modules/d3/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/contextify
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.25
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

Within npm, the $NODE environment variable is the node executable.

[kkoopa]

This cannot be fixed. It is an unfortunate decision of Debian and its followers to arbitrarily change the names of files. You have three options:

1. Install a proper build of node.js with original file names
2. Install the nodejs-legacy package, which adds a symlink node -> nodejs
3. Make the symlinks yourself