Leaving this gist in the hopes that this helps someone some day.
I was using a docker image with Alpine linux. In this docker container I installed a specific version of node
via several methods (nodenv, asdf, etc.) and each time I had to add the gcompat
package so I could run glibc applications.
When I tried to install many npm
packages such as yarn
and corejs
and others I would get the error:
Error: spawn sh ENOENT
I belive I finally realized that Error: spawn sh ENOENT is happening since npm
is trying to launch sh
and there is some incompatibility with a glibc app running with gcompat
trying to launch a non-glibc app like sh