Reported to Fedora at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248782
On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 1:00:55 AM UTC+1 twp...@gmail.com wrote: > 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/e19c7e0e-11cd-4f1c-9856-cd0645b54697n%40googlegroups.com.
