On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 21:23, Pete Heist <[email protected]> wrote:

> 3) I’d like to build with the standard Go compiler instead of gccgo. I
>> currently have this in Build-Depends in the control file:
>>
>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11),
>>                dh-golang,
>>                golang-any,
>>                …
>>
>> Should I just replace golang-any with golang-go, or is it preferred that
>> we actually support gccgo?
>>
>
> What’s your motivation to do so? Definitely leave a comment if you go that
> route. Also, note that this will mean that your package will be available
> on fewer architectures (some are supported by gccgo, but not by gc).
>
>
> The irtt server that’s compiled with gccgo (amd64) can exit for no reason,
> and it doesn’t leave a log message, but there's no code path by which that
> should even be possible. It's easier to switch to a compiler I know than
> try to track it down. It can take a few days to reproduce. :)
>

You do realize that golang-any gets you the gc compiler on architectures
that support it? Switching from golang-any to golang-go changes nothing on
amd64.

Cheers,
mwh

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