Unable to test go 1.6.4 with 1.6.3 on Mageia 5 (trying to package it)

[bcornec]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.6.3 linux/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH=""
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/lib/golang"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/golang/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT="1"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"

What did you do?

I'm trying to package the latest go 1.6.4 for Mageia (uptading our current 1.6.3)
I ran an rpmbuild which triggered the following in the %check section (after the build succeed):

• umask 022
• cd /users-ssd/bruno/prj/mageia/golang/BUILD
• cd go
• '[' 1 -eq 1 ']'
  ++ pwd -P
• export GOROOT=/users-ssd/bruno/prj/mageia/golang/BUILD/go
• GOROOT=/users-ssd/bruno/prj/mageia/golang/BUILD/go
• export PATH=/users-ssd/bruno/prj/mageia/golang/BUILD/go/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/qt4/bin:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin
• PATH=/users-ssd/bruno/prj/mageia/golang/BUILD/go/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/qt4/bin:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin
• cd src
• export CC=gcc
• CC=gcc
• export 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fPIC'
• CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fPIC'
• export LDFLAGS=
• LDFLAGS=
• export GO_TEST_TIMEOUT_SCALE=2
• GO_TEST_TIMEOUT_SCALE=2
• ./run.bash --no-rebuild -v -v -v -k

Testing packages.

go tool dist test -run=^go_test:archive/tar$

ok archive/tar 0.029s
ok archive/zip 0.144s
ok bufio 0.120s
[...]
ok text/template 0.044s
ok text/template/parse 0.009s
--- FAIL: TestLoadFixed (0.00s)
time_test.go:943: Now().In(loc).Zone() = "-01", -3600, want "GMT+1", -3600
FAIL
FAIL time 2.735s
ok unicode 0.041s

I can reproduce this by doing:
$ go test time
--- FAIL: TestLoadFixed (0.00s)
time_test.go:943: Now().In(loc).Zone() = "-01", -3600, want "GMT+1", -3600
FAIL
FAIL time 7.561s

[quentinmit]

Go 1.6 is no longer supported. The tests fail when run with a current timezone database. Either use a newer Go or don't run the tests.

[ALTree]

@bcornec if for some reason you can't package a newer version, and you want to be able to run the tests, you can cherrypick the patch for this. Ref is c5434f2

[bcornec]

Thanks Alberto. Will see whether we should update to 1.7.4 instead.
The update is necessary for a security wrt 1.6.3 that is shiped with Mageia 5 anyway so your git id is very handy !

[ALTree]

That test will fail in 1.7.4 too, unfortunately. You'll need go1.8 (scheduled for February 1, 2017).

The fix was pushed after the go1.7 release, and it wasn't cherry-picked for 1.7.3 or 1.7.4. People has been complaining about this (see this comment). Then #18163 was filed, proposing we allow test-only changes to be included in minor releases. It was accepted, and in the future this will hopefully make life a little easier for Go package maintainers when a test-only problem arises.

[bcornec]

I've been able to package 1.6.4 + your patch for mageia 5 as an update.
I'll probably provide that one for mga6, while I'm working on packaging 1.7.4 (which requires modification of our patches to build). Thanks a lot for your help.