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runtime: runtime_test execution of nm uses system go, not go in tree #7089

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randall77 opened this issue Jan 9, 2014 · 6 comments
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cd go/src
./make.bash
../bin/go test runtime -short

--- FAIL: TestRuntimeGogoBytes (0.10 seconds)
    runtime_test.go:113: go tool nm: exit status 1
        usage: nm [-aghnsSTu] file ...
FAIL

It's picking up the system-wide go (and thus nm) which is Go 1.2, not the one from
../bin/go which is tip.

Setting GOROOT before building fixes it.  This used to work, although I guess mostly by
accident (the system and tip nm's were compatible).  Any way we can fix this, or do I
have to start setting GOROOT all the time now?
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bradfitz commented Jan 9, 2014

Comment 1:

Even when you set the GOROOT, I think it's still finding your system-wide "go" 1.2
binary, but "go tool nm" is then respecting Go 1.2.
All of our tests that exec.LookPath("go") should probably use the locally-built go
binary instead of whatever old thing is on the system.  It's more than just the runtime
package, IIRC.  runtime/race, runtime/pprof, os/signal, crypto/x509, ...

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bradfitz commented Jan 9, 2014

Comment 2:

s/then respecting Go 1.2/then respecting GOROOT/

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minux commented Jan 10, 2014

Comment 3:

how about making the test query runtime.GOROOT and execute goroot/bin/go instead of
relying
on (the correct) cmd/go is in $PATH?

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rsc commented Mar 3, 2014

Comment 4:

I would say you should put your development tree in your path ahead of other things if
you are going to run tests by hand. all.bash works, so this is purely about local
development. We could work to change tests to invoke the right "go", but the assumption
is going to creep back in, because nearly everyone working on Go already does put their
development bin directory ahead of the system bins. It's fine to change existing tests
if you'd like not to do this for some reason, but you'll probably have to keep fixing
them as new ones crop up.

Labels changed: added release-none.

Status changed to Accepted.

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rsc commented Mar 3, 2014

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Owner changed to ---.

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Comment 6:

Labels changed: added repo-main.

@rsc rsc added this to the Unplanned milestone Apr 10, 2015
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