well now, that's weird. I just tried this in a minimal use case, compiled
a linux command on my mac and ran it on my ubuntu box that just did the
below... and it worked. Now I'm wondering what the difference is.
On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 10:55:02 AM UTC-4, Nate Finch wrote:
>
> Nope, I'm wrong. It was an invalid test. It's still failing.
>
> I'm going to raise this as an issue on the go tool.
>
> IMO, this should work, and does not:
>
> c := exec.Command("go", "build", "main.go")
> c.Env = append(os.Environ(), "GOROOT="+goroot)
> err := c.Run()
>
> It should probably even work without setting GOROOT explicitly, but it
> definitely should if I do (presuming GOROOT is correct, of course)
>
>
>
> On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 12:07:06 AM UTC-4, Nate Finch wrote:
>>
>> Reporting back: this worked perfectly.
>>
>> On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 7:43:47 PM UTC-4, Dave Cheney wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank should work.
>>>
>>> On Monday, 16 October 2017 10:30:45 UTC+11, Nate Finch wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hmm... I really don't want people to have to build Mage, since mage is
>>>> a build tool. Would it be horrible to just run go env GOROOT and use
>>>> that to set GOROOT in the environs for the command that runs go build?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 5:36:43 PM UTC-4, Dave Cheney wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess is that GOROOT is not set in the target environment so the
>>>>> value eventually collapses back on the GOROOT compiled into mage from the
>>>>> value compiled into the toolchain that built mage.
>>>>>
>>>>> gb has the same problem, I didn’t want to encourage people to set
>>>>> GOROOT, but if they don’t, there is no way to find the right tool chain.
>>>>>
>>>>> I gave up and stoped distributing binary images, which 1/2 solved the
>>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>>
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