npm install fails on node LTS version >10.x

[chrisjenningsOS]

I attempted to install on the two latest node LTS branches, v14.16.0 and v12.21.0, and installation failed in both cases.

node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for gdal@0.9.9 and node@12.17.0 (node-v72 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
... which after a long process of compilation it eventually fails with

Failed to execute '/home/cjennings/.nvm/versions/node/v12.17.0/bin/node /home/cjennings/.nvm/versions/node/v12.17.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/cjennings/.nvm/versions/node/v12.17.0/lib/node_modules/@mapbox/mapbox-upload-validate/node_modules/gdal/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64/gdal.node --module_name=gdal --module_path=/home/cjennings/.nvm/versions/node/v12.17.0/lib/node_modules/@mapbox/mapbox-upload-validate/node_modules/gdal/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64 --napi_version=6 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v72' (1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! gdal@0.9.9 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the gdal@0.9.9 install script.

It ran successfully on v10.24.0. Is there a dependency on this version of node? Maintenance on this version ends April '21

2021-03-04T17_10_16_736Z-debug.log