[Libguestfs] libguestfs build fails with: /usr/lib64/golang/pkg/linux_amd64/libguestfs.org/guestfs.a -- no such file

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 01/01/2014 06:00 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
>> I'm on libguestfs Fedora git master branch:
> [...]
>> go install libguestfs.org/guestfs: open
>> /usr/lib64/golang/pkg/linux_amd64/libguestfs.org/guestfs.a: permission denied
> 
> I believe this happens if you have golang-guestfs installed at the
> same time that you try to compile things locally. 

Indeed -- once I removed the golang-guestfs package, and re-issued
a local build, it goes through just fine:

  $ git log | head -1
  commit 8eb1aa2406632eb4202bbd976459334854295a77

  $ fedpkg local
  [. . .]
  Wrote: /home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18-1.fc21.src.rpm
  Wrote:
/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/x86_64/libguestfs-1.25.18-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm
  [. . .]

  $ echo $?
  0

Thanks.

> It's a serious
> design flaw in golang that the language is resistant to being properly
> packaged.  (There is a bugzilla thread on this topic, but I can't find
> it at the moment ...)
> 
> Rich.
> 


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/kashyap