Docker image can't use 1.4 fabric SUT

[davidkel]

Current builds of 0.5.0 unstable docker image fail to install fabric 1.4 SUT

> [email protected] install /home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-client/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

[grpc] Success: "/home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-client/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v83-linux-x64-musl/grpc_node.node" is installed via remote

> [email protected] install /home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-network/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

[grpc] Success: "/home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-network/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v83-linux-x64-musl/grpc_node.node" is installed via remote

> [email protected] install /home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-protos/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download 
node-pre-gyp WARN Tried to download(404): https://node-precompiled-binaries.grpc.io/grpc/v1.24.2/node-v83-linux-x64-musl.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v83 ABI, musl) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
make: Entering directory '/home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-protos/node_modules/grpc/build'
make: printf: Operation not permitted
make: *** [grpc.target.mk:543: Release/obj.target/grpc/deps/grpc/src/core/lib/surface/init.o] Error 127
make: Leaving directory '/home/node/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/fabric-protos/node_modules/grpc/build'

There are 2 problems here

1. [email protected] uses 1.24.2 which is different to fabric-network/fabric-client
2. 1.24.2 has no prebuilt binaries so an attempt to compile is done but that compile fails and compiles should work

[davidkel]

The reason for 2 appears to be due to this https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Release_Notes_for_Alpine_3.14.0#faccessat2
So it's due to the change to alpine 3.14 (I really don't like alpine). Solutions include using a later version of docker (the version I was using was a bit old) or to follow advice in the above link.

For 1 the only option would be to move to a newer version of fabric-protos. In 2.1.1 they changed the underlying version of grpc to grpc-js which in turn breaks all the generated apis (so much for not changing apis in a micro/minor release change) so we would have to change the code to work with the new protobuf apis. But the only code that uses that is the channel creation/install/instantiate of the 1.4 connector for which we will be removing so probably not worth it. Also 1.4 fabric SUT is legacy now as fabric 1.4 is out of LTS.

[davidkel]

confirmed that newer versions of docker address this problem so it's a case of just documenting the fact. We won't try to address the fact that it compiles the grpc code due to 2.1.0 fabric-protos package. This will be addressed when we remove the need for the integration tests to use the create channel/install/instantiate chaincode for fabric tests which I would hope we can achieve in 0.5.1 (docs have already been removed in 0.5.0 so capability has been removed from a user perspective)

[davidkel]

a minimal version is documented as part of #1268 which has been tested to show that it works.