Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/pkg-golang.mk: add osusergo and netgo tags in static builds

[Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>]

Hi Arnout,

On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 9:23 AM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
>
> CGO (the Go language C bindings) normally links dynamically with the C
> libraries. It seems that passing -extldflags=-static is not sufficient
> to make sure they link statically. As a result, a build using CGO will
> fail with
>
> runtime.gcdata: missing Go type information for global symbol .dynsym: size 72
>
> There are two modules in the standard Go library that can use CGO:
> os/user and net. Both of these have pure Go versions, however, which can
> be selected with the osusergo and netgo tags. Since these two are
> standard library modules that get used in almost all Go programs, pass
> those flags in the common infrastructure.
>
> It's not entirely clear if this is always the case or only depending on
> the specific way CGO is used. In the former case, we could instead
> disable CGO globally if static libs are enabled. However, it turns out
> that this doesn't solve the problem completely anyway (delve still fails
> to link, with different errors). Also, it is possible that other cgo
> modules do still work. Therefore, just stick to adding the osusergo and
> netgo tags.
>
> Fixes:
>  - crucible:
>    http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/c2f/c2f29f55b461899e8e15c0494578304e6f74bf51/

I am still getting reports about crucible failure.

Do you plan to apply this patch?

Thanks
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