Hi! This doesn't block me in any way, but I wanted to report it anyway:
On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:26:15 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > I have committed a large patch to update the Go frontend and libgo to > the recent changes in the gofrontend repository. Doing an incremental rebuild, that ran into: [...]/source-gcc/libgo/go/runtime/heapdump.go:379:14: error: reference to undefined identifier 'sys.Goexperiment' dumpstr(sys.Goexperiment) ^ make[3]: *** [runtime.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `[...]/build-gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libgo' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `[...]/build-gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libgo' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `[...]/build-gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libgo' make: *** [all-target-libgo] Error 2 Removing "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libgo", and rebuilding, it passed. There is: > commit eab2960aee91d3e3a6baa5b1bce01262d24c714f > Author: Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> > Date: Thu Apr 20 17:08:19 2017 -0700 > > runtime/internal/sys: define Goexperiment > > The gc toolchain defines Goexperiment based on the environment > variable GOEXPERIMENT when the toolchain is built. We just always set > Goexperiment to the empty string. > > Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/41292 | diff --git a/libgo/Makefile.am b/libgo/Makefile.am | index f600a83..f4bf2bc 100644 | --- a/libgo/Makefile.am | +++ b/libgo/Makefile.am | | @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ | echo "package sys" > version.go.tmp | echo 'const DefaultGoroot = "$(prefix)"' >> version.go.tmp | echo 'const TheVersion = "'`cat $(srcdir)/VERSION | sed 1q`' '`$(GOC) --version | sed 1q`'"' >> version.go.tmp | + echo 'const Goexperiment = ``' >> version.go.tmp | echo 'const GOARCH = "'$(GOARCH)'"' >> version.go.tmp | echo 'const GOOS = "'$(GOOS)'"' >> version.go.tmp | echo 'const GccgoToolDir = "$(libexecsubdir)"' >> version.go.tmp In the failed build's tree, I do see that the Makefile has been renewed, but the version.go file has not yet been, at the time the build failed. Is there some missing dependency, or should that be implicit? libgo/go/runtime/heapdump.go also is new, and is the only user of sys.Goexperiment, as far as I can tell. Grüße Thomas