/bin/sh: ./node_modules/.bin/recess: No such file or directory

[marceloverdijk]

I followed instructions on http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/extend.html#compiling to compile 2.3.0-wip branch.

I've installed the following components with sudo npm install -g less jshint recess uglify-js

When running make I get:

192:bootstrap marceloverdijk$ make

##################################################
Building Bootstrap...
##################################################

Running JSHint on javascript...             ✔ Done
/bin/sh: ./node_modules/.bin/recess: No such file or directory
make: *** [build] Error 127
192:bootstrap marceloverdijk$ ./node_modules/.bin/recess

As defined in the make file it's pointing to ./node_modules/.bin/recess but when I check the install feedback I see:

[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/uglify-js
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected])

[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/recess
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected])

[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/jshint
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected])

[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/connect
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])

which is pointing to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/recess

Is there some misconfiguration on my side?

Cheers,
Marcel

[mdo]

That page is out of date and will be removed in 3.0. Follow the directions in the readme instead. I'll be updating the page for now in #6346 to remove this section and direct folks to the readme.

[mdo]

Just resolved.

[marceloverdijk]

But as far as I could see the README.md is similar then the page I mentioned, which also states to install:

npm install recess connect uglify-js jshint -g

After that I try to run make but I get the error.

Or am I missing something?

[dudebout]

#6576 fixes the issue by not forcing you to install locally to use bootstrap

[atomgiant]

@marceloverdijk - I ran into the same thing - a work around is to drop the -g flag from the npm install to install the modules locally to the node_modules directory. Looks like bootstrap expects that currently for 2.3 at least.

See also: http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/03/23/npm-1-0-global-vs-local-installation/

[John-Cass]

thanks @atomgiant - that worked for me