build: --without-ssl and --without-intl imply new limitation (no debugger)

[refack]

• Version: > 6
• Platform: All
• Subsystem: inspector, ssl

Since #12197 (i.e. node8) when node is built --without-ssl or --without-intl inspector is not available. As a consequence node is built with no debugger interface. configure does not warn about this (new) consequence.

Since in previous versions these switches did not remove all debugger interface, this is a regression in the build behaviour.

Ref: #12757

[refack]

Marked regression since when node8 is built --without-ssl it will not have any kind of debugger interface. and this a new regressive behaviour for the --without-ssl switch

[refack]

@addaleax correct me if I'm wrong but the debug protocol was independent of the ssl capabilities of the binary, and AFAIK inspect is. Thus, no ssl -> no debugger -> regression.

[addaleax]

@refack Yeah, I see where you’re coming from, but I wouldn’t say it is a regression. This is related to features we’re intentionally adding and removing, there’s just no way we can avoid any incompatibilities.

[refack]

could we build a proxy?

[refack]

I thought about it, and then again, since this is an unintended consequence of the --without-ssl switch, IMHO even a strongly worded warning would solve this issue.

@addaleax you are right in that this not an inspector bug but IMHO it is a build regression.

[sam-github]

Doesn't sound like a bug to me. Lots of stuff disappears when SSL isn't built in (crypto, https, ...). Building without OpenSSL is a fringe build, for special purposes.