[pkg-golang-devel] Bug#799907: golang 1.5 does not build under arm64

[Tianon Gravi]

On 23 September 2015 at 20:45, Potter, Tim (Converged Cloud)
<timothy.potter at hpe.com> wrote:
> Hi there.  I’ve found and fixed a build bug on arm64 for golang in the delian-experimental branch,
> fixed by the attached patch.  According to the GoArm page on the golang wiki [1] GOARCH needs
> to be set to arm64.

Nice catch, thanks!

> The patch also includes a fix for the “unrecognised build host instruction set”
> error, where the error message displays $BUILD_HOST_ARCH_CPU when the variable being
> checked is DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU which I think it not what’s intended.

Fantastic!  I've pushed this and a few other fixes to this section of
the debian/rules file to the branch; mind giving it a try? :)

♥,
- Tianon
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