hlx build of demo project fails

[stefan-guggisberg]

Description
hlx build of a newly created project with hlx demo fails with the following error:

/Users/stefan/Downloads/demo/src/html.htl: Cannot find module './html.pre.js
2019-03-18 16:52:42.428 error: encountered unhandled promise rejection at process level: [object Promise], reason: [object Object]

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install binary hlx (version 0.13.9 or 0.13.10)
2. hlx demo demo && cd demo && hlx up
3. See error

Expected behavior
No error, browser launches and renders the project

Version:
0.13.9 and 0.13.10

Additional context
Works with 0.13.8

[stefan-guggisberg]

only the binary builds of hlx seem to be affected.

[stefan-guggisberg]

Found the root cause: As of version 0.13.9 helix-cli doesn't work properly on Node 8.3 anymore. Version 0.13.8 works as expected on Node 8.3.

see #657

Since the binary hlx embeds Node 8.3 it's affected as of version 0.13.9.

[tripodsan]

can you include a more recent node version in the hlx binary? for example: node v8.15.1 ?

[stefan-guggisberg]

I already spent 3 days working on porting the packaged Node runtime. It's non trivial. It involves patching Node sources and gyp files :/ More recent Node versions introduce new fs methods (e.g. copyFile) which need to be ported to support squashfs...

[stefan-guggisberg]

fixed via workaround 12c5092
closing