Okay, what did you change? It's not obvious how the question whether you have procfs mounted resulted in your updating files in “src/internal/platform” and what those changes were. Telling the Go community the details of what you changed might help someone else. Not to mention whether the build tooling should be changed to automatically include those changes.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM Curtis Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the tip! > > I resolved the issue. I needed to update new files in > “src/internal/platform”. > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM Def Ceb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is a bit of a wild guess, but do you not have procfs mounted? If >> not, try it with. >> >> On Sun, Nov 9, 2025, 23:05 Curtis Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm attempting to build a newer version of go on freebsd/ppc64. I've >>> been successful in building versions up to go1.19. However, I'm unable to >>> build any newer release version. The newly built "go_boostrap" reports it >>> cannot find "GOROOT" (See below). >>> >>> Can anyone provide any tips/hints on what I've done wrong? >>> >>> root@blackbird-powerpc64:~/Devel2/go-go1.20.14/src # env GOOS=freebsd >>> GOARCH=ppc64 ./bootstrap.bash >>> #### Copying to ../../go-freebsd-ppc64-bootstrap >>> >>> #### Cleaning ../../go-freebsd-ppc64-bootstrap >>> >>> #### Building ../../go-freebsd-ppc64-bootstrap >>> >>> Building Go cmd/dist using /usr/local/go. 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