[work in progress] Node 4 requires gcc-4.8

[vielmetti]

Testing out a change, I was able to get

https://github.com/rla/fast-feed/blob/master/.travis.yml

to work with a similar effort. Node 4 requires gcc-4.8.

[lirantal]

Hi @vielmetti,

First, thanks for the PR!
I already have a work-in-progress for node v4 at meanjs#906

Would you like to commit to my branch the GCC changes so I can later merge it in together with my own changes in one PR?

[vielmetti]

Yes @lirantal ! I'd like to commit GCC changes to your branch, so you can merge everything together into one PR.

I am still working to get something ready to go, it generates a whole stream of errors coming out of nan downstream, but that's useful debug info and I think you could look at https://travis-ci.org/vielmetti/meanjs/jobs/80568987 and conclude that it was useful debug output.

[lirantal]

Sure, so I'll merge it in here only once I'm done merging my upstream PR for v4. Will do it later on tomorrow.

[vielmetti]

Sounds good. The cross-reference is rla/fast-feed#26 and this issue in node at nodejs/node#2798 which is extraordinarily useful in understanding how people have done their ports.

[lirantal]

@vielmetti did you get it to actually work and compile node v4 in travis?
our build for meanjs fails here: meanjs#922

any insights?

[vielmetti]

I ran into the issues you ran into for meanjs - there's some crazy quilt of socket.io depenedencies, and until those get really sorted out it's going to be hard to get a stable build.

[lirantal]

Ok then, thanks for the update!

[vielmetti]

https://twitter.com/SocketIO/status/645755967934697472

"Socket.IO 1.3.7 released with Node 4.0.0 support!"

[lirantal]

@vielmetti the build is still failing though even with the 1.3.7 upgrade: https://travis-ci.org/meanjs/mean/jobs/81755320

some package dependency for bufferutil I think

[vielmetti]

Yeah, there's some dependency that ends up at ChrisWren/grunt-node-inspector#32 where grunt has a plugin that hasn't updated in 5 months that needs some love.

[lirantal]

Yep, let's see when this get resolved.

[lirantal]

fixed now in master branch of meanjs and ported here too, thanks @vielmetti !