Double check that the installation on OS X works as expected...?

I got some feedback that installing on OS X with Node 0.12.x was not as smooth as it should be.

Excluding the typical npm ownership issues (root vs $USER) it seems that sse4_crc32 has some problems and our docs don't really say much about it. Can we do a dry run through all of this and see what's needed to make npm install gcloud an un-eventful process?

The complaints focused around sse4_crc32 and node-gyp, particularly something about --no-parallel being an invalid flag?

@anandsuresh

// @anandsuresh

@jgeewax

@jgeewax @stephenplusplus I just built the latest master branch of the SSE4_CRC32 library on my macbook and it worked fine. Also did an sudo npm install gcloud without any errors (had to run it as sudo due to the npm ownership issues).

Any chance of getting some logs of the problematic installation?

With regards to the --no-parallel flag, please check out nodejs/node-gyp#426 or Unitech/pm2#434.

@anandsuresh

I use gcloud with OS X every day, and have only run into errors when going between v0.10 of Node and v0.12. Doing that without re-installing the dependencies will cause errors.

If more issues pop up around sse4_crc32, I think we should direct users over to their repo for support. There's not much we can do here, aside from discontinue using it, which I don't think we want to do. @anandsuresh has been great with support, so the few times these issues come in, they'll likely be resolved rather quickly.

Feel free to re-open if this is not a satisfying answer.