JFTR this will be fixed after the freeze is over and Debian has released next stable.
O. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:12 AM, James Henstridge <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: golang > Version: 2:1.0.2-2 > > I reproduced this bug on Ubuntu > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang/+bug/1076017), but > it looks like the package was imported from Debian unmodified so > thought you'd like to know. > > Some Go packages with non-default build systems use the command "go > tool dist env" to discover information about the Go installation. > Unfortunately this fails with the 2:1.0.2-2 package for a few reasons > as described in the Launchpad bug report: > > 1. The dist tool tries to verify that GOROOT is correct by checking > that $GOROOT/include/u.h exists (it doesn't actually use the file > though). This doesn't appear to be included by any of the golang > packages. > > 2. If I create $GOROOT/include/u.h, it still fails when it tries to > determine the version number by checking for Mercurial tags in > $GOROOT, which also fails. > > It seems that it only falls back to running hg if $GOROOT/VERSION does > not exist. So creating that file with the appropriate content gets > things working. > > > So fixing this involves the following steps: > 1. either install /usr/lib/go/include/u.h, or modify the dist tool to > check for some other file that should appear in $GOROOT. > 2. Make the golang package include /usr/lib/go/VERSION > > Hope this helps. > > James. -- Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
