node-gyp failure when setting up project

[biggianteye]

I am trying to set up the project using yarn install and getting the following failure to execute node-gyp:

error /Users/burhan/projects/semver-check/node_modules/node-sass: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node scripts/build.js
Arguments:
Directory: /Users/burhan/projects/semver-check/node_modules/node-sass
Output:
Building: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/21.1.0/bin/node /Users/burhan/projects/semver-check/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --l
ibsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [
gyp verb cli   '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/21.1.0/bin/node',
gyp verb cli   '/Users/burhan/projects/semver-check/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js',
gyp verb cli   'rebuild',
gyp verb cli   '--verbose',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ext=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_cflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ldflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_library='
gyp verb cli ]
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | darwin | arm64
gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python3" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded python3 /opt/homebrew/bin/python3
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:422:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:515:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:457:11)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.emit (node:events:515:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:337:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 23.0.0
gyp ERR! command "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/21.1.0/bin/node" "/Users/burhan/projects/semver-check/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/burhan/projects/semver-check/node_modules/node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v21.1.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0

The problem is that it is trying to run a bit of python 2 syntax which is an error in python 3. Python 2 was EOL in January 2020 and was actually removed from the OS I am using (macOS) at the start of 2022.

The version of node-gyp in use in the project is 3.8.0 which is pretty old (2018). The version at the time of writing is 10.0.1.

npm explain node-gyp gives me this:

[email protected] dev
node_modules/node-gyp
  node-gyp@"^3.8.0" from [email protected]
  node_modules/node-sass
    node-sass@"^4.14.1" from [email protected]
    node_modules/node-sass-chokidar
      dev node-sass-chokidar@"^1.3.3" from the root project
    peerOptional node-sass@"^4.0.0" from [email protected]
    node_modules/sass-loader
      sass-loader@"8.0.2" from [email protected]
      node_modules/react-scripts
        dev react-scripts@"3.4.1" from the root project

Looks like upgrading node-sass-chokidar and react-scripts might fix this.