I am trying to use go generate/stringer (golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer
) to generate String() methods on enums. I have problems, which I believe, are because of slightly different format of .a packages on different systems. I have this file:
package main
import (
"math/rand"
)
//go:generate stringer -type=Foo
type Foo int;
const (
FooPrime Foo = iota
FooBis
)
func main() {
//Just use rand anywhere, otherwise we get a compiler error
rand.Seed(1)
}
Now if I run go generate example.go on my machine everything is all right: foo_string.go is created. However, on a test machine I get:
stringer: checking package: example.go:4:2: could not import math/rand (reading export data: /usr/lib64/go/pkg/linux_amd64/math/rand.a: go archive is missing __.PKGDEF)
Now, after some digging in the code I think that I get this error, because on my machine rand.a has the following header:
!<arch>
__.PKGDEF 0 0 0 644 2051
` while on test machine it has the following header:
!<arch>
__.PKGDEF/ 0 399 399 100644 2051
`
I think that the crucial difference is slash after PKGDEFF. gcimporter refuses to process .a file, if it doesn't have __.PKGDEF header.
To check this, I edited manually gcimporter/exportdata.go and changed one of the line from this:
if name != "__.PKGDEF"
to this:
if name != "__.PKGDEF" && name != "__.PKGDEF\"
After this change (and compiling and installing everything) I was able to run go generate on example.go.
My questions are: why do I get this problem and how do I get rid of it (other then manually editing external library)?