Previously all (except one!) usage of goenv.Version manually added the
git sha1 hash, leading to duplicate code. I've moved this to do it all
in one place, to avoid this duplication.
This is a small release just in time for GopherCon US.
Some of the big changes of this release are:
- switch to LLVM 16
- fixes for two separate hard-to-reproduce compiler crashes
- added support for the Adafruit Gemma M0
This replaces our own manual detection of various variables (GOROOT,
GOPATH, Go version) with a simple call to `go env`.
If the `go` command is not found:
error: could not find 'go' command: executable file not found in $PATH
If the Go version is too old:
error: requires go version 1.18 through 1.20, got go1.17
If the Go tool itself outputs an error (using GOROOT=foobar here):
go: cannot find GOROOT directory: foobar
This does break the case where `go` wasn't available in $PATH but we
would detect it anyway (via some hardcoded OS-dependent paths). I'm not
sure we want to fix that: I think it's better to tell users "make sure
`go version` prints the right value" than to do some automagic detection
of Go binary locations.
Moving and exporting this variable from the main to the goenv package
allows us to use it from both the main and the builder package.
This is done in preparation to include the value in `tinygo build`
linker flags, so that we can embed the version and git sha into binaries
built with tinygo.
First look at the VERSION file, only then look at
src/runtime/internal/sys/zversion.go. This makes it possible to
correctly detect the Go version for release candidates.
This is needed to make it available to more packages, for caching
purposes.
For caching, the version itself may not be enough during development.
But for regular releases, the version provides some protection against
accidentally using a cache entry that is invalid in a newer version.
This is necessary to avoid a circular dependency in the loader (which
soon will need to read the Go version) and because it seems like a
better place anyway.
