Re: Updates for Go

[John Kehayias]

Hi Katherine,

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 10:12 AM, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:

> On 8/22/23 8:24 AM, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the
> GNU System distribution. wrote:
>> Hi Attila,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 6:14 AM Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> wrote:
>>>
>>> currently the go build system in guix does not reuse build artifacts
>>
>> Can Golang reuse build artifacts?
>
> I don't think it's recommended right now. See discussion here:
>
> - <https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47788#issuecomment-1019562695>
> - <https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47788#issuecomment-1258773167>
>
> Summary:
>
> It sounds like due to the way the compiler can optimize code (e.g.
> inlining), `buildmode=shared` is not recommended, but in the future they
> are looking at allowing linking against a single shared library.

I've not been following in detail this discussion, but where do we currently 
stand? Is the proposed Go 1.21 patch basically ready? Should we create a branch 
and build job to start seeing how far we get in making 1.21 the default Go in 
Guix?

Like others, I have a few random Go packages (a bunch locally I really need to 
clean up too) and am not familiar with the language and our packaging much. 
Still, if I can help review/push some patches and get things moving, please let 
me know.

And thanks for all your work here, it is appreciated!

John