Solvednode canvas "./util/has_lib.sh freetype" returned exit status 0 in Canvas 1.6.0

After updating to 1.6.0 on Ubuntu 16.04, i'm now recieving the following error:

$ npm i canvas

> canvas@1.6.0 install /home/kurisu/sherlock/node_modules/canvas
> node-gyp rebuild

grep: warning: GREP_OPTIONS is deprecated; please use an alias or script
gyp: Call to './util/has_lib.sh freetype' returned exit status 0 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp

gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:305:16)
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:215:12)

I previously had Canvas 1.5.0 installed, all the dependencies (through apt) are met, but after trying to install 1.6.0, now I can't even return to 1.5.0.

Environment:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server
Canvas 1.6.0
Node 6.5.0

Fixed on my machine (OSX) with:

npm install -g node-gyp
brew install pkg-config cairo libpng jpeg giflib

It sounds like one or more of your dependencies got borked. Might try re-running the install bit (sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libpango1.0-dev libgif-dev build-essential g++)... If that doesn't do it, there are a handful of issues in this repo with the same or similar error that might have useful things to try.

I think that the actual problem was that you had GREP_OPTIONS set. sudo shouldn't be a requirement and I would not recommend building with sudo.

The only reason it started working with sudo is that it clears the environment.

This could be fixed by converting has_lib.sh from sh to javascript.