[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/go: bump version to 1.16
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Feb 19 12:42:37 UTC 2021
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in> writes:
> Hi Peter,
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 4:22 AM Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
>> > As announced in the Go 1.15 release notes, Go 1.16 drops support for
>> > x87 mode compilation (GO386=387). Support for non-SSE2 processors is
>> > now available using soft float mode (GO386=softfloat). Users running
>> > on non-SSE2 processors should replace GO386=387 with GO386=softfloat.
>>
>> > We don't set GO386 so it doesn't apply.
>>
>> But using SSE2 presumably means that go applications built for i386 will
>> only run on machines with SSE2 support, so as a minimum we need to
>> adjust BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GO_TARGET_ARCH_SUPPORTS to ensure go is not
>> available on older i386 variants?
> Better to just set GO386=softfloat for older i386 variants without SSE2.
> IMO, this seems like a separate issue from the version bump.
Why? Isn't that new behaviour? If so, this should be fixed as part of
the version bump.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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