Unable to build a custom Zepto package

Question

I've been trying to do a custom build of Zepto (I do have coffee installed globally already), with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/madrobby/zepto.git
cd zepto/
npm install
MODULES="polyfill zepto event ajax fx touch" ./make dist

but keep running into the problem of things hanging immediately after

> [email protected] dist /Users/johnny/Development/zepto
> coffee make dist

With the lack of verbose build commentary from coffee, I can't tell if anything's erroring, but I can't imagine that building Zepto would take more than a few minutes (and certainly not over an hour). Even their default dist build (without customizations) hangs at the same place, and happens both on my Ubuntu and Mac boxes.

Answer 1

As per https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/issues/782#issuecomment-20852321 if you install coffeescript > 1.5.0 this problem should go away. You can get the latest by running:

sudo npm install -g coffee-script

I was having the same problem and bumping my version of coffeescript fixed it (i was on 1.4.0)