[DOC] Make it clear that 'Could not detect abi for version...' errors can be safely ignored

[ben-biddington]

First time contributor checklist:

• I have read the README and Contributor Guidelines
• I have signed the Contributor Licence Agreement

Contributor checklist:

• My contribution is not related to translations.
• My commits are in nice logical chunks with good commit messages
• My changes are rebased on the latest main branch
• A yarn ready run passes successfully (more about tests here)
• My changes are ready to be shipped to users

Description

This change is intended to save time for first-time contributors who encounter this error and don't understand that it is essentially a warning.

I myself have just spent a lot of time trying to resolve it.

This issue makes it more difficult when there are other problems happening as well because you're not sure whether it's related.

I am hoping to prevent issue like these needing to be raised at all:

• Signal is fundamentally borked #5429 (comment)
• Error: Could not detect abi for version 25.2.0 and runtime electron. Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron #6522
• build better-sqlite3 failed！！Please help me~~~ #6197
• Missing dependency when installing frozen lock file with yarn. #5583
• Build fails when not on Node.js version specified in .nvmrc (fs-xattr exit status 1, missing script: install) #5118 (comment)
• https://community.signalusers.org/t/node-abi-version-error/52397/3
• https://community.signalusers.org/t/error-could-not-detect-abi-for-version-25-2-0-and-runtime-electron-updating-node-abi-might-help-solve-this-issue-if-it-is-a-new-release-of-electron/54439

Happy to put this documentation elsewhere and/or expand on it.

Cheers, Ben

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

Thanks for looking at this. If you can tweak your wording just a little bit, to say that it appears to fail, but actually succeeds, that would be more accurate. Also, would be good to leave out the discussion out the build server.

The best approach might be to say something like "when you yarn install, you might see something like this - it can be ignored"

[ben-biddington]

Okay, does that look better, @scottnonnenberg-signal ?

[ben-biddington]

Oops, will have to reopen, sorry!