On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Henrik Johansson <dahankz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes I understand. I was just wondering if the GOCACHE flag is permanent or > as a temp safety in case someone encounters a bug in the caching.
Ah. We are going to keep the GOCACHE environment variable around, because it can be used not only to disable the cache but to set the cache's location. Ian > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 21:35 Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Henrik Johansson <dahankz...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Ah, that's not what I meant but GOCACHE var itself and if it will be >> > permanent as a way to disable the cache. >> >> Sorry, I'm not sure exactly what you are saying. There is no way to >> permanently disable the cache, other than always setting the GOCACHE >> environment variable every time you run the go tool. >> >> Ian >> >> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 21:00 Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:00 PM, Henrik Johansson >> >> <dahankz...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Why I wondered was because to build script (a tiny settings file >> >> > really) >> >> > for >> >> > Archlinux uses this flag to build it's Go packages. >> >> > Is it available as a paranoia "i really need all the tests run"? Will >> >> > it >> >> > be >> >> > removed later on? >> >> >> >> Sorry, I don't know. I don't know who wrote that script or why it sets >> >> GOCACHE. >> >> >> >> Ian >> >> >> >> >> >> > sön 18 feb. 2018 kl 23:04 skrev Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org>: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Henrik Johansson >> >> >> <dahankz...@gmail.com> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> > The GOCACHE variable. What is it's effect when building Go itself? >> >> >> > It doesn't disable test caching when using the resulting go tools >> >> >> > right? >> >> >> >> >> >> Right. >> >> >> >> >> >> Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
