npm i -g nativescript failed with node v6.1.0

From @emptist on May 16, 2016 21:6

npm install failed with the following messages:

$ npm i -g nativescript
npm WARN excluding symbolic link docs/stylesheets/hightlight.css -> ../../node_modules/highlight.js/src/styles/solarized_light.css
npm WARN deprecated lodash-node@2.4.1: This package has been discontinued in favor of lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN excluding symbolic link docs/assets/ir_black.css -> ../../node_modules/highlight.js/src/styles/ir_black.css
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Test Framework -> Versions/Current/Test Framework
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Versions/Current -> A
npm WARN excluding symbolic link docs/assets/ir_black.css -> ../../node_modules/highlight.js/src/styles/ir_black.css
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Test Framework -> Versions/Current/Test Framework
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Versions/Current -> A
npm WARN excluding symbolic link docs/stylesheets/hightlight.css -> ../../node_modules/highlight.js/src/styles/solarized_light.css
/usr/local/bin/tns -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/bin/nativescript.js
/usr/local/bin/nativescript -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/bin/nativescript.js

> fibers@1.0.6 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fibers
> node build.js || nodejs build.js

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/fibers/src/fibers.o
../src/fibers.cc:454:6: warning: 'delete' applied to a pointer that was allocated with 'new[]'; did you mean 'delete[]'? [-Wmismatched-new-delete]
                                        delete data;
                                        ^
                                              []
../src/fibers.cc:449:19: note: allocated with 'new[]' here
                                void** data = new void*[2];
                                              ^
1 warning generated.
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/fibers/src/coroutine.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/fibers/src/libcoro/coro.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/fibers.node
Installed in `/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fibers/bin/darwin-x64-v8-5.0/fibers.node`

> bufferutil@1.0.1 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/bufferutil
> node ./build.js

(node:676) DeprecationWarning: child_process: options.customFds option is deprecated. Use options.stdio instead.
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/bufferutil.node
Installed in `/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/bufferutil/bin/darwin-x64-v8-5.0/bufferutil.node`

> ref@1.1.3 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/ref
> node ./build.js

(node:753) DeprecationWarning: child_process: options.customFds option is deprecated. Use options.stdio instead.
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/binding/src/binding.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/binding.node
Installed in `/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/ref/bin/darwin-x64-v8-5.0/binding.node`

> ffi@2.0.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/ffi
> node ./build.js

(node:830) DeprecationWarning: child_process: options.customFds option is deprecated. Use options.stdio instead.
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/prep_cif.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/types.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/raw_api.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/java_raw_api.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/closures.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/x86/ffi.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/x86/darwin.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/ffi/deps/libffi/src/x86/darwin64.o
  LIBTOOL-STATIC Release/libffi.a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gyp-mac-tool", line 611, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "./gyp-mac-tool", line 28, in main
    exit_code = executor.Dispatch(args)
  File "./gyp-mac-tool", line 43, in Dispatch
    return getattr(self, method)(*args[1:])
  File "./gyp-mac-tool", line 246, in ExecFilterLibtool
    if not libtool_re.match(line) and not libtool_re5.match(line):
TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
make: *** [Release/libffi.a] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 15.4.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.1.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/ffi
gyp ERR! node -v v6.1.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.3.1
gyp ERR! not ok 
Build failed
/usr/local/lib
└── (empty)

npm ERR! Darwin 15.4.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.1.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "-g" "nativescript"
npm ERR! node v6.1.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.6
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! ffi@2.0.0 install: `node ./build.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the ffi@2.0.0 install script 'node ./build.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the ffi package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node ./build.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs ffi
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls ffi
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/jk/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code 1

Copied from original issue: NativeScript/NativeScript#2122

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Merged with https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-cli/issues/1733

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Hey @rosen-vladimirov can you comment here?