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cmd/go: suggestion to fail to build, or emit warning, on unused build tags #47020

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dans-stuff opened this issue Jul 1, 2021 · 2 comments
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@dans-stuff
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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.16.3 darwin/arm64

What did you expect to see?

I added a build tag (specifically go build -tags lambda.norpc), which is a build tag honored by https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go

However, it just so happened that the build tag was introduced in a version later than the version I had pinned. My go mod had v1.13, the build tag was introduced in v1.18

This was incredibly difficult to discover, therefor I am suggesting that passing a build tag should produce an error if that build tag is not found anywhere. At least a warning should be displayed, if not failing the build entirely.

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I think this would be fairly difficult in practice. For example there is a standard library build tag osusergo, used only by the "os/user" package. Some people routinely build with go build -tags=osusergo. They don't want the build to fail just because the specific program they happen to be building doesn't import the "os/user" package.

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dans-stuff commented Jul 2, 2021

@ianlancetaylor Good to know! Perhaps a list of known common build tags could be omitted from the check? Normally I feel something like this would be in go vet but as it's a build argument, there's no way to include it there.

Conversely, if the tags are not found during normal compilation, a scan could be performed of all relevant source codes - all of stdlib, all of vendor - and if it is still not found that could be cause for a build failure? The problem you mentioned would still exist but in much rarer cases, perhaps rare enough that it is unlikely to have happened.

Edit: Random idea, but a vet flag for build could be a very cool addition. go build -vet could fail on all normal vet conditions, as well as some extras that only occur during a build.

@dmitshur dmitshur added FeatureRequest GoCommand cmd/go NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. labels Jul 2, 2021
@dmitshur dmitshur changed the title Suggestion: Fail to build, or emit warning, on unused build tags cmd/go: suggestion to fail to build, or emit warning, on unused build tags Jul 2, 2021
@dmitshur dmitshur added this to the Backlog milestone Jul 2, 2021
@jayconrod jayconrod modified the milestones: Backlog, Unplanned Jul 12, 2021
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