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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] WIP: Go-lang
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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 =E2=80=9Clibgcc_s=E2=80=9D in gcc.scm.)  I guess we need to do so=
mething
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=E2=80=99m mistaken, Nixpkgs does not run the test suite of Go
(and of most packages; specifically, =E2=80=98stdenv.mkDerivation=E2=80=99 =
has a
=E2=80=98doCheck=E2=80=99 parameter, which is unset by default, meaning tha=
t the =E2=80=98check=E2=80=99
phase is skipped unless =E2=80=98doCheck =3D true=E2=80=99 is explicitly gi=
ven.)

> 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=E2=80=99.