Created attachment 656002 [details]
implementation of check_output we found on stackoverflow

The package has two SLES11 compliance issues:

1. usage of g++ 4.8 needs to be specified on SLES11
Changes the compiler dependency in the head section
%if 0%{?sles_version} == 11
BuildRequires:  gcc48-c++
%else
BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
%endif

and

%if 0%{?sles_version} == 11
        export CXX="g++-4.8"
%endif
before running the configure script

2. python 2.6 does not include the check_output method used in the configure
script. We need to patch it into the script 
Patch2:         nodejs-configure.patch

%if 0%{?sles_version} == 11
# add check_output to configure script (not part of python 2.6 in SLES11)
%patch2 -p1
%endif