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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Parker Moore <parkrmoore@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, cranger@google.com,
	Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/persistent-https: update ldflags syntax for Go 1.7+
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:36:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfur6isyr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160716051800.GA2845@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:18:01 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> This `name=value` syntax for the -X flag was introduced in Go v1.5
>> (released Aug 19, 2015):
>> 
>> - release notes: https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#link
>> - commit: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/12795c02f3d6fc54ece09a86e70aaa40a94d5131
>> 
>> In Go v1.7, support for the old syntax was removed:
>> 
>> - release notes: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.7#compiler
>> - commit: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/51b624e6a29b135ce0fadb22b678acf4998ff16f
>> 
>> This patch includes the `=` to fix builds with Go v1.7+.
>
> With the disclaimer that I have very little experience with Go, this
> seems like a good, well-explained change. My only question would be
> whether people still use pre-v1.5 versions of Go, since it sounds like
> this would adversely affect them if they do. (If it does, it seems the

Yeah, you get something like this:

    $ ./git-remote-persistent-https --print_label
    2016/07/18 13:34:33 unlabeled build; build with "make" to label

which is probably not the end of the world.  The label does not even
identify the version of the source in any way, so I am not sure how
people are depending on that feature anyway ;-)




  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-15 20:44 [PATCH] contrib/persistent-https: update ldflags syntax for Go 1.7+ Parker Moore
2016-07-16  5:18 ` Jeff King
2016-07-18 20:36   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-19  4:32     ` Parker Moore
2016-07-19  4:49       ` Shawn Pearce
2016-07-19 17:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 23:32           ` Parker Moore
2016-07-20 19:21             ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-21  0:58 Parker Moore
2016-07-22 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano

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