here's the log, nodejs is 0.10.36, rhel is 7 update 1, aerospike from repo
gyp verb node dev dir /opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike/.node-gyp/0.10.36 gyp verb `which` succeeded for `make` /usr/bin/make make: Entering directory `/opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike/build' gyp info spawn make gyp info spawn args [ 'V=1', 'BUILDTYPE=Release', '-C', 'build' ] LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike/build/Release/lib.host:/opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike/build/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../.; mkdir -p aerospike-client-c/lib aerospike-client-c; scripts/aerospike-client-c.sh which: no lsb_release in (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike/node_modules/.bin:/opt/app/engine/node_modules/.bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) error: is not supported. make: *** [aerospike-client-c/lib/libaerospike.a] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike/build' gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:820:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /opt/app/engine/node_modules/aerospike gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.36 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.1 gyp ERR! not ok npm verb unsafe-perm in lifecycle false npm info [email protected] Failed to exec install script npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the aerospike package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls aerospike npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/bin/npm" "install" "--force-unsafe" "--verbose" "aerospike" npm ERR! cwd /opt/app/engine npm ERR! node -v v0.10.36 npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm verb exit [ 1, true ] npm verb node_modules/aerospike unbuild npm info preuninstall [email protected] npm info uninstall [email protected] npm verb true,/opt/app/engine/node_modules,/opt/app/engine/node_modules unbuild [email protected] npm info postuninstall [email protected] npm ERR! not ok code 0