[bug#49221] [PATCH 00/13] Add go-1.16 and build with gccgo

[Sarah Morgensen]

Hello,

Thanks for the push!

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:52:55PM -0700, Sarah Morgensen via Guix-patches 
> via wrote:
> 
>> I would appreciate testing and feedback on the new bootstrap process,
>> especially from powerpc64le users, as I have only been able to test on 
>> x86-64.
>> (Note that it took about two hours for gccgo to build and 30 minutes for 
>> gccgo
>> to build go.)
>
> I was able to build go@1.16 as-is and with the conditional switched, so
> it used gccgo to bootstrap go@1.16. Additionally on my x86_64 machine
> using emulation I was able to build go@1.16 for powerpc64le. On the
> powerpc64le box I have access to I was able to build gccgo and I'm still
> building out to go@1.16.

Excellent! Thanks for testing. Fingers crossed :)

> My only concern about the patches is that I've been burned before about
> pushing updates to go packages, where some seem to have insufficient
> testing and then they'll build and fail. So in the meantime I've pushed
> the go@1.16 patch.

Fair enough. We'll have to wait & see if any issues surface. On that
note, I've found the tests in etcd-io-bbolt and go-gopkg-in-check-v1 to
be performance-based, and they would sometimes fail on my VM. Updating
them did help, but did not completely eliminate the issue.

--
Sarah