Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 06:38:53PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Yes, it should be statically linked.  Isn't it the same issue as we recently had
> with go-1.11 itself?
> 
> The fix was
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>            ;; Prevent installation of the build cache, which contains store
>            ;; references to most of the tools used to build Go and would
>            ;; unnecessarily increase the size of Go's closure if it was
>            ;; installed.
>            ;; TODO This should be moved into the 'install' phase when Go 1.9 is
>            ;; removed.
>            (add-before 'install 'delete-extraneous-files
>              (lambda _
>                (delete-file-recursively "../pkg/obj")
>                #t))

Unfortunately, in this case, the references are within the executable
binaries, so it's not the same issue.

We could rewrite the references like we do for the errant compiler
references. This will be really expensive though — if there is no other
way, then it's time to finally move the Boyer-Moore implementation in
(guix grafts) to its own module so we can use it easily.

But ideally we could prevent these references from being created in the
first place.

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