Building and upgrading Node.js on Beaglebone Black with VFPv3 and NEON

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Resources: 
http://fastr.github.io/articles/Node.js-on-OpenEmbedded.html
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Cortex-A8

Flags:
"-O3 -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -ftree-vectorize -mfloat-abi=softfp"

So, in a nutshell:

$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.25/node-v0.10.25.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf node-v0.10.25.tar.gz
$ cd node-v0.10.25
$ export CC='gcc -O3 -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -ftree-vectorize -mfloat-abi=softfp'
$ export CXX='g++ -O3 -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -ftree-vectorize -mfloat-abi=softfp'
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install


Then remove old node and link new one:

$ rm /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/node-waf
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node

OR(absolutely unsafe):

$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

Check with:

$ node -v

Probably this works on any source build.