bug#39400: Go retains a reference to GCC

2021-07-07 Thread Sarah Morgensen via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: >> Go invokes gcc when compiling with cgo, and cgo (or at least the usage >> of standard libraries which use cgo) is getting fairly common. If we do >> not provide a default gcc with Go, a plain "go build" will produce an >> error if it encounters something which uses

bug#39400: Go retains a reference to GCC

2021-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Sarah Morgensen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello! >> >> It seems that Go unduly retains a reference to GCC: >> >> $ guix size go >> store item total >> self >> /gnu/store/g4rrz9rnr8ssbnj3gx3dmsxv4glll8nf-go-1.12.15

bug#39400: Go retains a reference to GCC

2021-07-06 Thread Sarah Morgensen via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hello, A quick addendum... Sarah Morgensen writes: > This means that even if the user provides a different CC, the > gcc-7.5.0-lib dir will also be in the runpath. I do not know if, or how > much, this would conflict with other gcc-lib runpaths. > I have just seen the consequences of this: the

bug#39400: Go retains a reference to GCC

2021-07-03 Thread Sarah Morgensen via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hello all, (I have CC'd Tobias since we briefly discussed this on #guix recently.) Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > It seems that Go unduly retains a reference to GCC: > > $ guix size go > store item totalself > /gnu/store/g4rrz9rnr8

bug#39400: Go retains a reference to GCC

2020-02-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! It seems that Go unduly retains a reference to GCC: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix size go store item totalself /gnu/store/g4rrz9rnr8ssbnj3gx3dmsxv4glll8nf-go-1.12.15 646.3 35