Build nodejs from source and assemble a deb package which installs on the Raspberry pi

pi-build-deb.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -o errtrace

node_version="0.10.20"

source_bundle="http://nodejs.org/dist/v${node_version}/node-v${node_version}.tar.gz"

# store the location of the base working area.
pushd . 

curl ${source_bundle} | tar xvz

temp_dir=$(mktemp -d)

# cross compile vars

# Toolchain pulled down from https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools
export PATH=$HOME/tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-bcm2708hardfp-linux-gnueabi/bin:$PATH
 
export TOOL_PREFIX="arm-bcm2708hardfp-linux-gnueabi"
export CC="${TOOL_PREFIX}-gcc"
export CXX="${TOOL_PREFIX}-g++"
export AR="${TOOL_PREFIX}-ar"
export RANLIB="${TOOL_PREFIX}-ranlib"
export LINK="${CXX}"
export CCFLAGS="-march=armv6j -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -DUSE_EABI_HARDFLOAT"
export CXXFLAGS="-march=armv6j -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -DUSE_EABI_HARDFLOAT"
export OPENSSL_armcap=6
export GYPFLAGS="-Darmeabi=hard -Dv8_use_arm_eabi_hardfloat=true -Dv8_can_use_vfp3_instructions=false -Dv8_can_use_vfp2_instructions=true -Darm7=0 -Darm_vfp=vfp"
export VFP3=off
export VFP2=on

mkdir -p ${temp_dir}/usr

# navigate into the sources directory
cd node-v${node_version}

# configure and install
./configure --prefix=/usr --without-dtrace --dest-os=linux --without-snapshot
make -j4 install DESTDIR=${temp_dir} DESTCPU=arm

# copy over docs
mkdir -p ${temp_dir}/usr/share/doc/nodejs

for i in README.md doc/\* AUTHORS ChangeLog LICENSE
do
  cp -R $i ${temp_dir}/usr/share/doc/nodejs
done

# back to the base working area.
popd

package_revision=${BUILD_NUMBER:-1}
package_version=${node_version}_${package_revision}

fpm -s dir -t deb -n nodejs -v ${package_version} -C ${temp_dir} \
  --deb-user root --deb-group root \
  --deb-compression xz \
  --description "Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications." \
  --category "web" \
  --url http://nodejs.org \
  --architecture all \
  -p nodejs-${package_version}_armhf.deb \
  -d "libstdc++6 (>= 4.7.2)" \
  usr/bin usr/lib usr/share