title: node-serialport failing on alpine linux
body: <p>I am working on a small nodejs (nodejs v4.3) project that is using node-serialport <a href="https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport">https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport</a>. I wrapped it in a docker image. First I successfully used debian as a base image but it had a total size of about 600MB. Then I switched to alpine linux <a href="https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine/">https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine/</a> and achieved 100MB of image size. However the nodejs project stopped working with alpine as base image. Here are some logs:</p>
  
  <p>Install node-serialport log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; serialport@2.0.6 install /app/node_modules/serialport
  &gt; node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
  
  [serialport] Success: "/app/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v46-linux-x64/serialport.node" is installed via remote
  serialport@2.0.6 node_modules/serialport
  ├── bindings@1.2.1
  ├── async@0.9.0
  ├── sf@0.1.7
  ├── debug@2.2.0 (ms@0.7.1)
  ├── nan@2.0.9
  └── optimist@0.6.1 (wordwrap@0.0.3, minimist@0.0.10)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try to open a serial port I get an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm ERR! Linux 3.19.0-30-generic
  npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
  npm ERR! node v4.3.0
  npm ERR! npm  v2.14.12
  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR! app@1.2.0 start: `node ./bin/www`
  npm ERR! Exit status 1
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Failed at the app@1.2.0 start script 'node ./bin/www'.
  npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the app package,
  npm ERR! not with npm itself.
  npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
  npm ERR!     node ./bin/www
  npm ERR! You can get their info via:
  npm ERR!     npm owner ls app
  npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
  
  npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
  npm ERR!     /app/app/npm-debug.log
  module.js:435
    return process.dlopen(module, path._makeLong(filename));
                   ^
  
  Error: Error relocating /app/app/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v46-linux-x64/serialport.node: __strcpy_chk: symbol not found
      at Error (native)
      at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:435:18)
      at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
      at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
      at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
      at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
      at Object.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/app/app/node_modules/serialport/serialport.js:14:25)
      at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
      at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
      at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As I said, with debian as base image it worked. I think it could be related to the fact that alpine linux is missing something that node-serialport depends on. I created an issue on <a href="https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport/issues/682">https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport/issues/682</a> but I am not sure if this is a problem with node-serialport or with alpine linux. I read about node-pre-gyp being buggy on alpine/busybox. </p>