[pkg-go] Bug#868046: Bug#868046: gb uses /usr/lib/go-1.7 even if go 1.8 is installed

[Tianon Gravi]

On 11 July 2017 at 07:11, Jens Kubieziel <jens at kubieziel.de> wrote:
> user at linux:> strace -e trace=file gb build github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/go-bindata |& egrep '1\.7'
> stat("/usr/lib/go-1.7/src/vendor/github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/go-bindata", 0xc42015a858) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/usr/lib/go-1.7/src/github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/go-bindata", 0xc42015a928)
> = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/usr/lib/go-1.7/src/vendor/flag", 0xc42015ae08) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/usr/lib/go-1.7/src/flag", 0xc42015aed8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Arg -- so, gb is a bit picky about which Go it's compiled against (and
Dave often will recommend that users try a clean recompile of gb
before he'll try debugging their issues since even minor Go upgrades
can break it).

I wonder if we need to do something like "gb-go1.8" vs "gb-go1.7" to
help enforce tighter separation (similar to what's often done in
Python packages with "bin2" vs "bin3" or even "bin2.7" vs "bin3.4" vs
"bin3.5"). :(


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- Tianon
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