gyp ERR! when building assets

[jmnda-dev]

I encountered this issue when building the assets. I run the make build-assets and got the following in my logs:

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npm info run [email protected] postinstall { code: 0, signal: null }
npm timing build:run:postinstall:node_modules/bootstrap-vue Completed in 756ms
npm timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 564ms
npm timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 28ms
npm timing command:install Completed in 73345ms
npm verb stack Error: command failed
npm verb stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/jachin/.asdf/installs/nodejs/16.15.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/lib/index.js:63:27)
npm verb stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:527:28)
npm verb stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1092:16)
npm verb stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)
npm verb pkgid [email protected]
npm verb cwd /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2
npm verb Linux 5.17.12-300.fc36.x86_64
npm verb node v16.15.1
npm verb npm  v8.11.0
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/node-sass
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node scripts/build.js
npm ERR! Building: /home/jachin/.asdf/installs/nodejs/16.15.1/bin/node /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp verb cli [
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '/home/jachin/.asdf/installs/nodejs/16.15.1/bin/node',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   'rebuild',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '--verbose',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ext=',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '--libsass_cflags=',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ldflags=',
npm ERR! gyp verb cli   '--libsass_library='
npm ERR! gyp verb cli ]
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected]
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] | linux | x64
npm ERR! gyp verb command rebuild []
npm ERR! gyp verb command clean []
npm ERR! gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
npm ERR! gyp verb command configure []
npm ERR! gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed Error: not found: python2
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:13:12)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at F (/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:68:19)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at E (/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:80:29)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:89:16
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/isexe/index.js:42:5
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/isexe/mode.js:8:5
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (node:fs:198:21)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed  python2 Error: not found: python2
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:13:12)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at F (/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:68:19)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at E (/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:80:29)
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/which/which.js:89:16
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/isexe/index.js:42:5
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/isexe/mode.js:8:5
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (node:fs:198:21) {
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed   code: 'ENOENT'
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` failed }
npm ERR! gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python" in the PATH
npm ERR! gyp verb `which` succeeded python /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/bin/python
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/bin/python -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:398:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:527:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1092:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 5.17.12-300.fc36.x86_64
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/home/jachin/.asdf/installs/nodejs/16.15.1/bin/node" "/home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/node_modules/node-sass
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v16.15.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! Build failed with error code: 1
npm verb exit 1
npm timing npm Completed in 73444ms
npm verb unfinished npm timer reify 1655294001514
npm verb unfinished npm timer reify:build 1655294072138
npm verb unfinished npm timer build 1655294072139
npm verb unfinished npm timer build:deps 1655294072139
npm verb unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall 1655294073983
npm verb unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/node-sass 1655294073993
npm verb code 1

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/jachin/WORKSPACE/djaoapp2/installTop/.npm/_logs/2022-06-15T11_53_21_422Z-debug-0.log

After searching for a solution, I stumbled upon suggestions that I need to downgrade node to version 14. I downgraded from node 16.15.1 to 14.19.3 using asdf and the asset build was successful.

Am still interested as to why was not working with node 16