Hey aprice,
Keep in mind that g++ is a requirement of node-gyp (which I mentioned above). Unfortunately, npm does not currently have any method of defining ‘maybe build this’ kinds of resources (like the C++ binding for couchnode). This means we have to manually invoke node-gyp and ignore its errors in order to properly support platforms where prebuilt binaries are available. In hindsight, what I will do however, is add a reference to the builderror.log in the ‘Failed to load native binding’ error!
Cheers, Brett