[bug#50261] [PATCH] gnu: node: Enable cross-compilation.

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello Pierre,

> While working on tree-sitter I realized our node packages didn't
> cross-compile [0] so I thought I'd give it a go, here's a patch!

Nice!

> I'm not sure there's any way to express this restriction in the package
> definition, it would be good to fail in a useful way, any thoughts? I
> suspect a mechanism for this isn't really worth the effort, I don't know
> of any other packages like this.

Yeah that's a strange limitation, I don't think we have something
similar elsewhere. A restriction that compares the host and target
bitness is maybe not worth it.

> -                      (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "python")
> +                      (string-append (assoc-ref (or native-inputs inputs) 
> "python")

You have several lines such as this one that are longer than the 78
columns limit.

Other than that, it looks cool, and you can go ahead.

Thanks,

Mathieu