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Webpack fails to build on NTFS filesystems

See original GitHub issue

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? I am reporting a bug.

What is the current behavior? The latest version of webpack 3.5.5 (as well as the beta version) does not build on NTFS filesystems. Specifically, the error occurs at the postinstall step, and seems to be caused by an attempt to remove a directory with contents using rmdir.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce. This gist reproduces the bug on my machine. Note that this assumes a Linux OS.

What is the expected behavior? The build should not fail.

Please mention other relevant information such as the browser version, Node.js version, webpack version and Operating System.

$ npm --version
5.4.0
$ uname -v
#37~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 14:07:24 UTC 2017
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.10.0-33-generic (buildd@lgw01-22) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #37~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 14:07:24 UTC 2017

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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NemoSteincommented, Sep 11, 2017

Since I’m on a Windows 10 I can’t confirm the relation with NTFS, but the problem might be with npm itself… I was able to install webpack with npm@5.3.0, but failed with npm@5.4.1 with a EPERM, so the problem must be in npm@5.4.0, since that is the version you used. Marking the installation with --no-optional worked.

I think that this issue should be opened again…

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sheljohncommented, Sep 4, 2017

@sokra I think that’s a problem solved 😃

Installing with yarn add webpack

This installs with a warning regarding fsevents being incompatible with the platform.

Installing with npm i webpack --no-optional

This works fine on my machine, no error or warning during the build.

Installing fsevents on Linux

This was off to a bad start, because the package specifies explicitly that it is for OSX only. The installation fails with npm, and throws a warning with yarn for the same reason: “incompatible platform”.