Tar version 3 performs better and is more well tested than its
predecessor.  npm will be using this in the near future, so there is no
benefit in shipping a node-gyp that uses the slower and less reliable
fstream-based tar.

This drops support for node 0.x, and thus should be considered a
breaking semver-major change.

PR-URL: nodejs#1212
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]>

* dropping support for node < 4
* signal the CI not to test node < 4

If you're providing a path to a header tarball to install, you probably
want it to always be re-installed.

PR-URL: nodejs#1220
Fixes: nodejs#1216
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <[email protected]>

* test: build simple addon in path with non-ascii characters
* test: add test-charmap.py

PR-URL: nodejs#1203
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <[email protected]>

Enable linking to the platform specific installation instructions

PR-URL: nodejs#1225
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <[email protected]>

Lifted verbatim from
https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
then `s/Node.js/node-gyp/`.

PR-URL: nodejs#1229
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]>

Give users reporting bugs a clearer idea of the info that will be
helpful when reporting issues.

PR-URL: nodejs#1228
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/.github
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

this is a rebase of
a981ef8
After bumping gyp to 19495aa

Actually I just took the file as is, because of a discontinues
patch floating.

Gyp defaults to gcc/g++ if CC.host/CXX.host is unset. This is not
suitable for environments that only uses the clang toolchain.

Since we already assume that the user will provide clang/clang++
through CC/CXX, lean against it (then drop to gcc/g++).

PR-URL: nodejs#908
Refs: nodejs/node#6173
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <[email protected]>

When generating Android.mk files for HOST binaries, we need to specify
the LOCAL_CXX_STL to use when linking.
Also, set the variable GYP_HOST_MULTILIB to 'first'. This is used as
LOCAL_MULTILIB, and since we don't provide flags for both types of
builds (32-bit and 64-bit), the build system will try to build both and
fail.
More details about LOCAL_MULTILIB can be found here:
https://source.android.com/source/64-bit-builds.html

Signed-off-by: Robert Chiras <[email protected]>
PR-URL: nodejs#935
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>

To make sure platform specific newlines ('\r\n' or '\r') are converted
to '\n' which otherwise will fail eval().

This should handle multiple issues reported on syntax error reading
binding.gyp (partial list):

nodejs#979
nodejs#199
nospaceships/node-net-ping#24
nospaceships/node-net-ping#21
mathiask88/node-snap7#11
node-hid/node-hid#28
xdenser/node-firebird-libfbclient#24

PR-URL: nodejs#1053
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>