mapbox / mapbox/node-pre-gyp

No rule to make target '../.node-gyp/0.10.36/common.gypi', needed by 'Makefile

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Description

In https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport/issues/535#issuecomment-109098152 I've been documenting a difficulty with installing serialport which depends on node-pre-gyp, and have seen the following error (or possibly two):

```
gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/0.10.36"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serialport/.node-gyp"
make: Entering directory '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serialport/build'
make: *** No rule to make target '../.node-gyp/0.10.36/common.gypi', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop.
make: Leaving directory '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serialport/build'
```

Is this a node-pre-gyp issue or a node-serialport issue? If the latter, please feel free to close, but is there perhaps a patch I could submit to node-serialport to resolve it? Thanks in advance for any help.

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Start by comparing the node-pre-gyp installation path with the linked node-serialport report and reproduce the shown make failure. Done means identifying whether node-pre-gyp or node-serialport owns the missing ../.node-gyp/0.10.36/common.gypi dependency and documenting or fixing that path.

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node.js
Domain
build-system, tooling
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
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