[pkg-go] Bug#903385: Bug#903385: dh-golang: Allow the "build" dh stage to call "go build" instead of "go install"

[Michael Stapelberg]

Would such a flag be useful for any other package than the fscrypt package?

If no, I’d recommend to not change dh-golang for the time being, and let
this be a one-off in the fscrypt package until it makes sense to centralize
the logic.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Paride Legovini <pl at ninthfloor.org> wrote:

> Package: dh-golang
> Version: 1.34
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> There is at least one case when it would be preferable to have the build
> dh stage to call ’go build’ instead of ’go install’. This is when
> building c-shared libraries with -buildmode=c-shared. In this case ‘go
> install’ builds the shared library object, but gives it a ‘.a’ extension
> and installs it in a not well defined location. This is discussed in this
> upstream issue:
>
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24253
>
> The upstream indication is that "The expectation is that people will use
> go build -buildmode=c-shared -o foo.so" and that using ‘go install’ "will
> put the shared library in a relatively unpredictable place".
>
> Given these facts, I think dh-golang should support a ‘go build’ mode.
> One way this could be implemented is via a --build-only flag to be
> passed to dh_auto_build. If there is consensus on this I can send a
> patch implementing it.
>
> This problem arose while packaging fscrypt, see in particular:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/fscrypt/blob/
> d15d123eb301d50c0376a10615e472054dd3b88d/debian/rules#L36
>
> Paride
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Best regards,
Michael
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