Re: [PATCH 0/3] WIP: Go-lang

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> 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.

> 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.)

> 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’.