Hello Guix, This is intended to be a tracking issue for updating go-build-system to use Go 1.17 by default. The build system currently uses Go 1.14, which no longer receives security updates [0].
Here's what needs to be done: 1. Address the aarch64 bug [1], either by verifying that it only happens on emulated systems, or by fixing it if not. 2. Make some much-needed improvements to go-build-system [2]: * replace the *slow* phase 'remove-go-references with -trimpath option * avoid building a directory union of Go inputs (and then copying it!) * add a "go-std-cache-for-build" package (hidden; name to be bikeshedded), which will be an implicit input in go-build-system (needed since we removed the pre-built standard library in go-1.17) 3. Some/all Docker packages still require Go 1.14; make them use go-1.14 explicitly. Alternatively, update Docker (significant effort involved). 4. Update or patch broken packages. I've got patches for four so far: go-github-com-urfave-cli go-github-com-urfave-cli-v2 go-github-com-sevlyar-go-daemon go-github-com-keybase-go-ps I'll submit them as a separate patch and block this with it. If anyone else would like to see if their favorite package works with Go 1.17, you can build it with: go build --with-input=go@1.14=go@1.17 <package> [0] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle#release-maintenance [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49921 [2] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50227#10 -- Sarah
