My bad! The changes were to ensure the "freebsd" and "ppc64" pairing are included in "zosarch".go for both "OSArch" and "osArchInfo" declarations. I did not regenerate zosarch.go after adding the OS/ARCH pair in "cmd/dist/build.go"
On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM Kurtis Rader <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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