Not working on macOS Catalina because of node-gyp

[stephenjfox]

I would like to get started on solving this issue and documenting the process. Can someone point in my the write direction for getting setup past this point?

After a git clone and npm install in the cloned directory, this is what I get.

fsevents@1.2.7 install /Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents
> node install

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Tried to download(404): https://fsevents-binaries.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/v1.2.7/fse-v1.2.7-node-v72-darwin-x64.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for fsevents@1.2.7 and node@12.4.0 (node-v72 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 50, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 554, in script_main
    return main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 547, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 532, in gyp_main
    generator.GenerateOutput(flat_list, targets, data, params)
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 2215, in GenerateOutput
    part_of_all=qualified_target in needed_targets)
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 802, in Write
    self.WriteCopies(spec['copies'], extra_outputs, part_of_all)
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 1145, in WriteCopies
    env = self.GetSortedXcodeEnv()
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 1885, in GetSortedXcodeEnv
    additional_settings)
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 1616, in GetSortedXcodeEnv
    additional_settings)
  File "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 1527, in _GetXcodeEnv
    if XcodeVersion() >= '0500' and not env.get('SDKROOT'):
TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'tuple' and 'str'
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:351:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 19.0.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v72-darwin-x64/fse.node" "--module_name=fse" "--module_path=/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v72-darwin-x64" "--napi_version=4" "--node_abi_napi=napi"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents
gyp ERR! node -v v12.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v72-darwin-x64/fse.node --module_name=fse --module_path=/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v72-darwin-x64 --napi_version=4 --node_abi_napi=napi' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Darwin 19.0.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v12.4.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.10.3
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /Users/stephenfox/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v72-darwin-x64/fse.node --module_name=fse --module_path=/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v72-darwin-x64 --napi_version=4 --node_abi_napi=napi' (1)
npm WARN rollback Rolling back fsevents@1.2.7 failed (this is probably harmless): EINVAL: invalid argument, rmdir '/Users/stephenfox/personal/open-source/TRAINSET/node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util'
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.7 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.7 install: `node install`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

audited 11446 packages in 5.862s

Notes

I've gone through node-gyp debugging for Catalina, so I am highly confident that that is not the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This tool looks amazing and I would love to extend it.

[daterdots]

Good find, @stephenjfox ! Cursed Catalina. We will try to get to the bottom of this. @rushk014 or @marcpare do you have a sense of what's up here?

[daterdots]

PS @stephenjfox, if you just want to take it for a test drive in the meantime, we have it deployed at https://trainset.geocene.com (it all runs locally, so we don't see any of the data "Upload").