Opened 4 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#62747 closed update (invalid)

Update go version and possible bug

Reported by: gaming-hacker (G Alexander) Owned by: ci42
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.6.4
Keywords: Cc: herbygillot (Herby Gillot)
Port: go

Description

Hello, Latest stable version is 1.16.3 portfile has 1.16.1

also why does build 1.16.1 depend upon old version 1.4 for non ARM?

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: herbygillot added; @… @… removed
Keywords: version outdated old dependency removed
Owner: set to ci42
Status: newassigned

go was updated to 1.16.3 23 days ago. Run sudo port selfupdate to receive this and other updates.

You mustn't include the @ symbol before the GitHub username when filling out the Cc field.

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by herbygillot (Herby Gillot)

You are misunderstanding how the Portfile for Go works.

In order to build Golang, you require a Go compiler because Go is written in Go.

But in a pure MacPorts environment, you are only starting with a C/C++ compiler.

Go 1.4 is the most recent version of Go that can be built using only a C compiler.

So for x86_64, we build Go 1.4 first, *then* use Go 1.4 to build the most recent version of Go, which as of right now is 1.16.3 as @ryandesign said.

For arm64, Go 1.4 is not available. Therefore we take a different approach, and use an official pre-built Arm64 Go installation to build an Arm64-native build of the latest Go for MacPorts.

The pre-built version is 1.16.1, and we then use it to build the latest version (again 1.16.3). The version of the pre-built compiler does not really matter.

In all cases for both x86_64 and arm64, MacPorts is building the latest version of Go.

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by gaming-hacker (G Alexander)

Thanks, I'm not a huge user of Go but I need to hack it sometimes.

Please close ticket.

comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by herbygillot (Herby Gillot)

Resolution: invalid
Status: assignedclosed

As an update here, we are now using the same latest version of Go for the pre-built version that we use for ARM64.

Closing this ticket.

Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.