On 02.12.2016 11:09, minux wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Zlatko Čalušić <zcalu...@bitsync.net
<mailto:zcalu...@bitsync.net>> wrote:
Hello,
and thanks for another great Go release!
I have just one question, and it's not specific to this beta, but
all Go betas and rc-s.
I compile Go from repository like this:
cd $HOME/src/go.googlesource.com/go <http://go.googlesource.com/go>
git checkout -f master
git clean -fdx
git pull --ff-only
git checkout -f go1.8beta1
cd src && make.bash
The resulting binary unfortunately is not labeled as go1.8beta1,
but instead:
go version *devel +41908a5* Thu Dec 1 02:54:21 2016 +0000 linux/amd64
What follows next is that various Go software, where developers
decided to explicitely test for Go version (and of course don't
deal well with devel versions) fails to compile. One example is
gopherjs, it's uncompilable with this beta version, unless I
manually edit the source and remove gratuitous checks.
The question is, how do I persuade the compiled beta to report
version as go1.8beta1?
Because betas are just tags from the master branch, there is no way to
change the
VERSION file to read go1.8beta1. If you're going to report an issue,
just include the
full "go version" and it should be fine. If you insist on having go
version report go1.8beta1,
you can create a VERSION file at $GOROOT that read "go1.8beta1" and
rebuild Go.
However this is not recommended as git repository is a moving target
and if you
checkout a new revision without removing the VERSION file, the
reported version
would still be go1.8beta1, which will be really confusing.
However, if you download the go1.8beta1 source tarball, then the
VERSION file will
correctly indicate go1.8beta1.
Ah, I see... Thank you for the hint minux!
I can live with a bit of manual editing, it's not that beta's are
released every day. :)
Also git clean -fdx step from my simple compilation script takes care of
removing stale VERSION files, so all should be OK.
go version *go1.8beta1* linux/amd64
Yay! :)
Now, to see if gopherjs fancies THIS version string...
--
Zlatko
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