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@a4amitava
a4amitava
opened on Aug 12, 2017

Hi - Is there any document or reference to install npm on AIX system ?
Please help to provide any reference on How to install and configure Node on AIX .

EDIT(gibfahn):

The help issue () uncovered an issue with our builds, namely that they don't work with the libstdc++ from gcc 6.3.0.1 (reproduced by @shellberg). I'm reopening this, and adding the relevant information from that issue.

$ node - v
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program node because of the following errors:
        0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for node because:
        0509-136   Symbol _ZNKSt9type_infoeqERKS_ (number 345) is not exported from
                   dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/pthread/ppc64/libstdc++.a[libstdc++.so.6].
        0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
                 'dump -Tv' command.
$ g++ --version 
gcc version 6.3.0 (GCC)
$ rpm -qa | grep c++ 
libstdc++-devel-6.3.0-1.ppc
libstdc++-6.3.0-1.ppc
gcc-c++-6.3.0-1.ppc

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  1. gireeshpunathil commented on Aug 12, 2017

    @gireeshpunathil
    gireeshpunathil
    on Aug 12, 2017
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    @a4amitava - there is no special instructions for AIX, it follows a simple unzipping the package and setting the path sequence. For example, you could:

    1. Download latest installer
    2. Uncompress into a convenient folder
    3. export your PATH variable to the bin folder under the unzipped one.

    and start using node and npm.

    Please let me know if you found any difficulty.

  2. gibfahn commented on Aug 12, 2017

    @gibfahn
    gibfahn
    on Aug 12, 2017
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    @a4amitava for example

    installdir="$HOME/node" # Use whatever path you'd like to install to
curl https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.11.2/node-v6.11.2-aix-ppc64.tar.gz | tar -xf --directory $installdir --strip-components 1
export PATH="$installdir/bin:$PATH" # Add this to your ~/.bashrc to make it permanent.

    This will put the bin/ directory in /home/youruser/node/bin, and add it to the $PATH. You can verify that it worked with:

    node --version
npm --version

    You can extract the tarball anywhere, just make sure you add the bin/ directory to the path.

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  4. gibfahn commented on Aug 12, 2017

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    on Aug 12, 2017
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    Questions like this are normally better suited for nodejs/help. I'll close this as answered, but feel free to comment or reopen if you have further questions.

  5. Trott
    closed this as completedon Aug 13, 2017

  6. a4amitava commented on Aug 18, 2017

    @a4amitava
    a4amitava
    on Aug 18, 2017
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    Below error encountered when we execute the node cmd -- Can you pls help ?

    exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program node because of the following errors:
        0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for node because:
        0509-136   Symbol _ZNKSt9type_infoeqERKS_ (number 345) is not exported from
                   dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/pthread/ppc64/libstdc++.a[libstdc++.so.6].
        0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
                 'dump -Tv' command.

  7. gibfahn commented on Aug 18, 2017

    @gibfahn
    gibfahn
    on Aug 18, 2017
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    @a4amitava so @gireeshpunathil and @shellberg are the experts here, but I can tell you what I know.

    You need at least gcc4.8.4, and the libstdc++.a version that comes with it, to run Node. We have it installed in /usr/local/gcc-4.8.4-1/. To run node we need to set the LIBPATH variable, which we do as follows:

    export LIBPATH=/usr/local/gcc-4.8.4-1/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0/4.8.4/pthread/ppc64

    Hopefully you can do the equivalent on your system.

    If you have any more issues, can you first tell us what version of AIX you're running, and what version of Node you're trying to install?

    cc/ @nodejs/platform-aix

  8. gibfahn commented on Aug 18, 2017

    @gibfahn
    gibfahn
    on Aug 18, 2017
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    I see that @shellberg already answered your question in nodejs/help#784, so let's continue the conversation there.

  9. a4amitava commented on Aug 21, 2017

    @a4amitava
    a4amitava
    on Aug 21, 2017
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    @gireeshpunathil .
    I have followed you , but getting the below error . i have also posted the same to help forum nodejs/help#784
    Can you please also advice ?

    node - v
    exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program node because of the following errors:
    0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for node because:
    0509-136 Symbol ZNKSt9type_infoeqERKS (number 345) is not exported from
    dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/pthread/ppc64/libstdc++.a[libstdc++.so.6].
    0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
    'dump -Tv' command.

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    changed the title [-]Installing Node and NPM on IBM AIX v7.1[/-] [+]_ZNKSt9type_infoeqERKS_ not found with gcc 6.3.0.1 on AIX 7.1[/+] on Aug 22, 2017
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  12. gibfahn
    reopened this on Aug 22, 2017

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  14. shellberg commented on Aug 24, 2017

    @shellberg
    shellberg
    on Aug 24, 2017

    Thanks Ben (@bnoordhuis ). We've clearly stumbled into inconsistency that we hadn't intended in producing the node binary builds on AIX.
    @gib : Looks like we have a few places in which to restore consistency... Although, the ICU component alone, being built with RTTI would seem to have the potential for 'tickling' this issue in the future. But, for now, the libuv component would be the likely candidate given 'aix' is not present in its common.gypi.

  15. bnoordhuis commented on Aug 24, 2017

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    on Aug 24, 2017
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    @shellberg cflags_cc are C++ compiler flags but libuv is a C project, it only uses cflags.

    The fact that cflags_cc is in libuv's common.gypi is a vestigial artifact of copying node's common.gypi when we started on libuv.

  16. gibfahn commented on Aug 24, 2017

    @gibfahn
    gibfahn
    on Aug 24, 2017
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    @bnoordhuis so any thoughts on where this flag could be coming in? Is it likely to be in ICU? If so it sounds like we can't turn it off.

  17. bnoordhuis commented on Aug 24, 2017

    @bnoordhuis
    bnoordhuis
    on Aug 24, 2017
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    @gibson grep -r frtti out/ should tell you but ICU seems like the most likely candidate.

  18. gibfahn commented on Aug 25, 2017

    @gibfahn
    gibfahn
    on Aug 25, 2017
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    Okay, grep -r frtti out/ gives lots of results, grep -r frtti out/ | grep -v icu returns no results. Seems pretty clear.

  19. srl295 commented on Aug 30, 2017

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    on Aug 30, 2017
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    RTTI is needed for ICU’s own processing. It can be turned off in any client code, though. (No caller is required to make use of RTTI in order to use ICU.) This is since ICU 4.6, some 8 years ago https://ssl.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/7455 — as an aside, ICU is now a C++-only project (for its implementation code)

  20. bnoordhuis commented on Sep 21, 2017

    @bnoordhuis
    bnoordhuis
    on Sep 21, 2017
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    Can this be closed now that #15286 was merged?

  21. shellberg commented on Sep 21, 2017

    @shellberg
    shellberg
    on Sep 21, 2017

    #15286 brings in -brtl into the master stream and into a future semver-major release...

    This reported issue, however, has highlighted an AIX incompatibility that arises on the GNU libstdc++ v5 boundary, and which currently affects all current node LTS releases and the way they are currently being built. AIX linkage model is raising some uncomfortable restrictions that mean forward compatibility is compromised on AIX in how the GNU community chose how to handle full C++2011 and C++2014 support... And, with potential ramifactions for diagnostic and debugging tooling too (the GNU tooling distributed in AIX would not have support for the v5 dual namespace that was introduced for symbols).

    I'd prefer to keep this open as an issue as we (at least myself, @gireeshpunathil and @gib) work towards deciding what to best recommend for the AIX platform in the timescale of version 8 going LTS. I'm leaning towards suggesting re-basing minimum libstdc++ support to 6.3.0, which bakes in C++2011 and C++2014 full support buying some future proofing against v8 adoption of C++2014 features, but that also compels all AIX installations to have to add that level of libstdc++ support to use node
    (only AIX 7.2 presently distributes GNU C++ runtime support at 4.8.4), and potentially upgrade more tooling to diagnose any future failures.

  22. gibfahn commented on Sep 22, 2017

    @gibfahn
    gibfahn
    on Sep 22, 2017
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    Can this be closed now that #15286 was merged?

    Short answer is no, that was a different issue.

  23. gireeshpunathil commented on May 14, 2018

    @gireeshpunathil
    gireeshpunathil
    on May 14, 2018
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    @a4amitava - latest Node (v10.x) is built with gcc 6.3.x so should work fine for you now. Can you please check and confirm?

  24. gireeshpunathil commented on May 19, 2018

    @gireeshpunathil
    gireeshpunathil
    on May 19, 2018
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    no response, closing. As we know, the issue is actually fixed in Node v10.x (thought it would have been good if someone from the field verifying it)

  25. gireeshpunathil
    closed this as completedon May 19, 2018

  26. shellberg commented on Nov 9, 2018

    @shellberg
    shellberg
    on Nov 9, 2018

    FYI : Node 11 dependencies are still based on employing the GNU compiler toolchain v6.3, and #1595 documents the set of freeware additions needed to be added to a clean AIX 7.1 base installation to meet this requirement.

  27. gireeshpunathil commented on Nov 9, 2018

    @gireeshpunathil
    gireeshpunathil
    on Nov 9, 2018
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    just wondering whether we should document this here . thoughts?

  28. lzsiga commented on May 11, 2026

    @lzsiga
    lzsiga
    on May 11, 2026

    Note: in C++, nothing is warranted, symbols come and go when you upgrade libstdc++. Rebuilding from source will help. (If your program compiles with the newer g++.)

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