installation instructions for Alpine Linux images

[miparnisari]

Hello, I wanted to ask whether these installation instructions are still accurate or if they need a refresher?

https://github.com/kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js/wiki/Installation-Instructions#alpine-linux-based-images

I basically want to know if I still need to build from source for Alpine Linux images.

Thanks!

[recrsn]

The instructions are accurate for rebuilding. You probably do not to compile from source since v6

[miparnisari]

@recrsn sorry, I don't follow. I was referring to this part

Alpine linux based images use musl libc instead of the standard glibc and thus are not compatible with compiled binaries. node-pre-gyp currently does not test the pre-compiled binaries to be ABI-compatible and thus you may see segfaults. We are working to resolve this issue. As a workaround, In alpine based images, force recompiling the bcrypt native addon after a npm install with this command: npm rebuild bcrypt --build-from-source.