v8-canary builds do not include linux-amd64 arch recently

[aalexand]

Looking at recent v8-canary builds like https://nodejs.org/download/v8-canary/v11.0.0-v8-canary20180906f69ce875ca/, I don't see linux-amd64 arch present, is that intended?

@ofrobots @nolanmar511 FYI

[richardlau]

@aalexand it's currently broken, see nodejs/node-v8#77

[aalexand]

@richardlau nodejs/node-v8#77 is marked as fixed now, but there are still no canary builds with linux-amd64 bits included. Actually, now the latest canary build at https://nodejs.org/download/v8-canary/ seems to be from 10-Sep-2018 which is more than 2 weeks ago, is that expected?

[richardlau]

@targos @refack Is the lack of v8-canary builds related to #22920?

[refack]

AFAIU soon after we merged V8 7.0 to master, we bumped our canary-base to 7.1.
This time it does not build without updates to the gyp scaffolding. So yes until we land #22920 we can't build with 7.1 (but we're very very close, I'm estimating day or two).

As for the original missing linux-amd64 build, nodejs/node-v8#77 was fixed just before we switched to 7.1, so we might have not ported that fix to the canary branch.

tl;dr we are not missing anything, since nothing new was done on the canary branch, and the nightly master builds are based on V8 7.0 which is even not "stable" yet, so they are king of bleeding-edge anyway.

[refack]

#22920 landed, so they are back https://nodejs.org/download/v8-canary/v11.0.0-v8-canary201810059c29459c41/ everything but smartOS.