For info, this is broken in Fedora 39, released a day or two ago: $ docker pull fedora:latest $ docker run -it fedora:latest /bin/bash [root@01330dfaac82 /]# dnf update && dnf install -y golang ... [root@01330dfaac82 /]# go version go version go1.21.3 linux/amd64 [root@01330dfaac82 /]# go tool dist list go tool dist: FAILED: not a Git repo; must put a VERSION file in $GOROOT
On Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 9:21:15 PM UTC+2 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 12:06 PM Lonnie TC <lonnie.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I hope that everyone is doing well today. > > I am working on a Golang project to port go-pmem over to MSYS2 using > MinGW 64: > > > > https://github.com/jerrinsg/go-pmem > > > > In trying to build the patched Go distro toolchain, I am getting some > strange error in the build that I do not know how to handle and am hoping > that someone can answer this for me. > > > > go tool dist: FAILED: not a Git repo; must put a VERSION file in $GOROOT > > > > any help would be truly appreciate. > > I don't know what go-pmem is, but a Go distribution should have a file > $GOROOT/VERSION that contains the version number of the release. If > you download the sources of, say, the Go 1.19 release, you will see a > VERSION file. For development purposes, if that VERSION file does not > exist, the Go build will pull the version from the git repo. You seem > to have Go sources that are not in a git repo and also do not have a > VERSION file. That setup is not expected or supported. The simple > fix is to create your own VERSION file. > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/6bcfe005-1b23-48a1-ae9d-9859943a3e9dn%40googlegroups.com.
