On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:08:53 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > > > It seems there's a lot of interest around getting Go packaged in Guix, so I > > figured I should post my work so far to the mailinglist. Currently go-1.4 > > does not have cgo enabled, the go binary keeps on trying to link against > > libgcc_s.so.1 (from gcc:lib) and can't find it in the RUNPATH. > > In GCC, we have a hack that automatically adds gcc:lib to the RUNPATH > (look for “libgcc_s” in gcc.scm.) I guess we need to do something > similar here.
I'll take a look at that. That should also help for gccgo-5.
>
> > Also, the tests are disabled. Nix has a whole slew of changes to the
> > test suite to remove tests that call out to the internet and to change
> > tests that call /bin/{hostname,pwd} and others.
>
> OTOH, unless I’m mistaken, Nixpkgs does not run the test suite of Go
> (and of most packages; specifically, ‘stdenv.mkDerivation’ has a
> ‘doCheck’ parameter, which is unset by default, meaning that the ‘check’
> phase is skipped unless ‘doCheck = true’ is explicitly given.)
They do actually run the tests, they call the build with `./all.bash` which
builds and then runs the tests.
>
> > Go-1.4 is built using gccgo-4.9, and go-1.5 uses go-1.4 to build, so I'm
> > pretty confident that go-1.4 works, and since go-1.5 inherits from go-1.4
> > it should be working too.
>
> Nice!
>
> Thanks for all the work!
>
> Ludo’.
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