Re: Bug#839132: libgo9: libgo built without FFI in mips*

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Please find out why libgo isn't configured to use libffi.

On 29.09.2016 12:30, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Package: libgo9
> Version: 6.2.0-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Recently, I modified golang-goprotobuf to use gccgo in non-native go arches,
> and found that it FTBFS in mips/mipsel/mps64el due to this error:
> 
>   fatal error: libgo built without FFI does not support reflect.Call or runtime.SetFinalizer
> 
> Here is one of the build logs:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=golang-goprotobuf&arch=mips&ver=0.0~git20160815.0.7390af9-2&stamp=1474830436
> 
> I don't know if this is a mistake, or if there is a reason for this FFI support
> not being included in these arches, but without it, a big number of packages
> are BD-Uninstallable as they depend transitively on protobuf support.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> 
> Versions of packages libgo9 depends on:
> ii  gcc-6-base  6.2.0-4
> ii  libc6       2.24-3
> ii  libgcc1     1:6.2.0-4
> 
> libgo9 recommends no packages.
> 
> libgo9 suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
>