Installing in docker is broken

[Rush]

> docker pull node
> docker run -it node /bin/bash
root@4a251ed35176:/# mkdir test
root@4a251ed35176:/# cd test
root@4a251ed35176:/test# npm init -y
root@4a251ed35176:/test# npm install --save fast-xml2js
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npm info attempt registry request try #1 at 9:36:57 PM
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npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-xml2js
npm info addNameTag [ 'fast-xml2js', 'latest' ]
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root@4a251ed35176:/test# node -r fast-xml2js -e 'true'   
module.js:457
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './fast-xml2js/fast-xml2js.node'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/test/node_modules/fast-xml2js/index.js:1:80)
    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)

This has something to do with the way node-gyp is set up with this package: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19132229/403571

It seems the workaround is npm install --unsafe-perm.

The problem does not exist in other native modules.

[cmrigney]

Thanks for the issue report. Could you provide an example of a native module that doesn't have this issue so I can see what they are doing?

[Rush]

This builds well https://github.com/hooklift/node-libvirt

[cmrigney]

@Rush I've run into the same issue. Any idea how node-libvirt does it without --unsafe-perm?