Do you know how often electron makes ABI-breaking changes? If minor updates are OK, it might be worth doing something like this:

Requires: nodejs-electron%{?_isa} >= %{electron_req_version}

Requires: nodejs-electron%{?_isa} < 17 (or whatever is current version + 1)

My Bitwarden binaries built with Electron 13 ( https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:dziobian:gulgul-ultron/bitwarden ) work fine on 16, but Signal does not, so there seem to be at least two types of binary Node modules.

Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - over 2 years ago

Signal requires header files for electron which are being downloaded. Same for nodejs, so the header files in the vendor tarball need to match exactly the nodejs and electron version to be able to build it.

Yes, it is quite a mess.

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Bruno Pitrus (dziobian) - over 2 years ago

The nodejs headers are provided in nodejs16-devel and can be used adding --nodedir=/usr/include/node16 to npm command line. Unfortunately the SuSE distribution of electron does not include devel headers. Ouch.

My question was different tho. I was asking whether binaries built against electron 16.0.1 can run with electron 16.0.2.

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Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - over 2 years ago

Yes, that should work. I was even able to run signal-desktop built against electron 13 with electron 15. However signal-desktop build with 15 and running with 16 doesn't work. Minor version updates should work.

I will look into node includes soon. However it still downloads electron headers from the web. Maybe we can package them too.

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Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - over 2 years ago

If I do export npm_config_nodedir=/usr/include/node16

node-gyp doesn't find the header:

make: Entering directory '/tmp/signal-desktop-1Tah1oUK/Signal-Desktop-5.29.0/node_modules/fs-xattr/build'
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/xattr/src/async.o
In file included from ../src/async.c:6:
../src/error.h:5:10: fatal error: node_api.h: No such file or directory
    5 | #include <node_api.h>
      |  

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Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - over 2 years ago

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195164

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Bruno Pitrus (dziobian) - over 2 years ago

The environment variable seems to not work, you need to use --prefix=…. See how i did it in my spec for bitwarden

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Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - over 2 years ago

That's just a workaround. I think right fix is that the common.gypi sets the include path correctly.

I also see the remove-heif support patch, that's uncool, I'll miss out on lots of dog and food pictures!

Seriously, anything that can be done to have working heif support? As disabling that means 99% of the pics I get don't show :D Or does it work and does this patch do something else... Sorry, just curious I guess.

Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - over 2 years ago

Tell your friends to use royalty free image formats.

Thank you for your dedication and hard work! This is so much appreciated!!!

I agree. Thank you for all you do. Just out of curiosity, is anyone else having issues with spellcheck working?