Some edge cases with IBM / smartOS platforms

[refack]

I'm trying to migrate node-test-node-addon-api to use NVS (instead of the hand rolled scripts it uses now.

I was able to remove ~100 lines, and get much better flexibility, but I've hit some edge cases:

1. smartOS - uname -m says 'i86pc' when we want need x64
2. AIX - uname -m spits out some UID instead of ppc64
3. ppc-be - supported only by node <= 7 - so NVS can't bootstrap
4. AIX - tar doesn't like -z

Example trying to test with:
node6 - https://ci.nodejs.org/job/refack-node-test-node-addon-api/23/
node12 - https://ci.nodejs.org/job/refack-node-test-node-addon-api/22/

This is my current monkey patch part on the bootstraping:

# Use NVS for cross platform node install
NODEJS_VERSION="$NODEJS_MAJOR_VERSION"
if [ ${NODEJS_MAJOR_VERSION} -gt "11" ]; then
  NODEJS_VERSION="nightly/$NODEJS_VERSION"
fi

echo "######### solve edge cases for nvs #########"
case $nodes in
  *s390x)
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/gcc-4.9/lib64
  ;;
  aix*)
    # we mock uname since the native one with '-m' gives some guid
    echo '#\!bash -xe' > uname
    echo 'if [[ "$1" == "-m" ]]; then echo "ppc64"; else echo "AIX"; fi' >> uname
    chmod 755 uname
    export PATH=$PWD:$PATH
  ;;
  smart*)
    # we mock uname since the native with '-m' one says 'i86pc'
    echo '#\!bash -xe' > uname
    echo 'if [[ "$1" == "-m" ]]; then echo "x64"; else echo "SunOS"; fi' >> uname
    chmod 755 uname
    export PATH=$PWD:$PATH
  ;;
esac

export NVS_USE_XZ=0
export NVS_HOME="$PWD/temp_nvs"
. $NVS_HOME/nvs.sh add $NODEJS_VERSION
nvs use $NODEJS_VERSION

P.S. Had to github-search to find the ability to NVS_USE_XZ=0. Couldn't find documentation for that.

[jasongin]

Interesting. I don't have experience with or access to any of these uncommon platforms. Would you be willing to submit a patch to nvs.sh that fixes the uname based platform and arch detection?

[refack]

Sure. Might take a while, but I'll set a reminder for myself.

[jasongin]

Fixed by #169