bug: yargs issue reappearing in 26.x.x

[darcyrush]

Version

26.2.0

Platform

Linux P3 6.8.0-117-generic #117~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May  7 22:17:46 UTC  x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Loading a module which depends on yargs

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Every time on 26.2.0, 26.1.0 and 26.0.0

Works fine on 24.16.0

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

Load as normal

What do you see instead?

ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead
    at file:///home/...../node_modules/.pnpm/yargs@17.7.2/node_modules/yargs/yargs:3:69
    at ModuleJobSync.runSync (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:543:37)
    at ModuleLoader.importSyncForRequire (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:365:47)
    at loadESMFromCJS (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1692:24)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1855:5)
    at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:2013:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1596:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1398:12)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:255:19)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1619:12)

Additional information

Possibly the same issue as #61971 which appears to have been fixed in node 25

[darcyrush]

From reading linked PRs, it seems that it is intentional that Node 26 behaves this way but I will let someone with more knowledge decide and close the issue if so.

[Renegade334]

Working as intended. See #62176 and yargs/yargs#2509 for context.