Github user jeking3 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1459
Ugh, so it turns out Ubuntu Xenial comes with go 1.6 which is pretty much
the version we use on all of our CI builds for testing (like cross test).
For further details on the issue see:
https://github.com/golang/mock/pull/118
Now I have to think some more about it. :|---
