Describe another failure case for installing node versions from source on mac arm64 machines

[igrayson]

Describe another failure case for installing node versions from source on mac arm64 machines.

It seems to be related to nodejs/node#39313 (which describes a similar issue).

[ljharb]

This change doesn’t explain how one can solve it nor where one can look to track a solution.

[igrayson]

That's correct, it doesn't.

The other 'Some issues you may encounter' above this in the README also do not track a solution.

And the "solution" immediately below this in the README also applies to this issue.

[ljharb]

fair enough

[lukelafountaine]

FWIW, this comment is misleading. The "solution" that follows this new line in the README does not apply to the addition found in this PR. This comment in the related issue mentions that problem described does not appear with arm64 but does appear with x64. So trying to install with using the x64 architecture actually induces the problem described in this PR. I just spent several hours trying and retrying variations the solution mentioned here, but I found the line added in this PR unhelpful because it led me to believe that the following lines would help me, when they really didn't.

I was experiencing what is described in this PR, (after nvm successfully compiles some versions, npm may later fail to install packages with an incorrect data check error). This was caused by what's described in this issue.

For any others that come across this, the workaround that I ended up using to successfully install an older version of Node (Node 12.22.1) was pretty much stolen from this commit in pkg-fetch. I changed this line to the following:

ADDITIONAL_PARAMETERS='--shared-zlib'

After that, I could npm i without issues.

[ljharb]

@lukelafountaine i'd be happy to accept PRs with further improvements.

[convenient]

A third kind of error that may or may not be worth documenting?

      # ERR! sharp Prebuilt libvips binaries are not yet available for darwin-arm64v8
      # info sharp Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error
      # info sharp Please see https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/page/install for required dependencies

To avoid this i'm thinking to compile with rosetta