[Docker-maint] Bug#784543: [pkg-golang-devel] Bug#784543: golang: test failures on arm64

[Tianon Gravi]

On 28 September 2015 at 01:56, Edmund Grimley Evans
<edmund.grimley.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> Firstly, I wasn't able to bootstrap it with gccgo-5, so I'm not sure
> that the "golang-go (>= 2:1.4.2-2~) | gccgo-5" in debian/control is
> correct.

Hmm, were you using sbuild?  I haven't yet figured out how the best
way to handle what sbuild calls "alternatives" here yet -- it has a
flag to attempt them (--resolve-alternatives), but it's disabled by
default (and thus most of the buildds have it disabled too).  The
dependency as listed is correct; we need one of either golang-go or
gccgo-5, and we prefer golang-go.

> With golang installed, it built but there were some test failures,
> though I can't guarantee my set-up wasn't somehow to blame:

I jumped on an arm64 porterbox to test, and after installing build
deps in my fresh sid schroot (including and especially gccgo-5), the
package did build successfully, including the entire test suite ("ALL
TESTS PASSED"), so I'm not sure what's going on here. :(

♥,
- Tianon
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