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

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:08:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@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.
> 
> > 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.)

Wow, this really clears some things up for me! I often refer to nixpkgs
when I get stuck and all this time I wondered why their build logs
didn't mention the tests very often.

> 
> > 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’.
>