Re: [PATCH] Clean all .go in clean-go

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> So, with the attached patch, I get the following output after `make
> clean-go`:
>
> warning: stray .go files: ./guix/scripts/import/cpan.go ./gnu/services/dmd.go
> ./gnu/system/linux.go ./gnu/packages/yasm.go ./gnu/packages/cursynth.go 
> ./gnu/packages/lightning.go ./gnu/packages/doxygen.go ./gnu/packages/tre.go 
> ./gnu/packages/asciidoc.go ./gnu/packages/texlive.go ./gnu/packages/i3.go 
> ./gnu/packages/fish.go ./gnu/packages/slim.go ./gnu/packages/tcsh.go 
> ./gnu/packages/zsh.go ./gnu/packages/lsh.go ./gnu/packages/rc.go 
> ./gnu/packages/openssl.go ./gnu/packages/aria2.go ./gnu/packages/gdbm.go 
> ./gnu/packages/gnutls.go ./gnu/packages/grue-hunter.go 
> ./gnu/packages/aarddict.go

Looks good, surely an improvement!

> Another issue that I thought of that's posed by these stray .go files,
> which isn't only a problem when acting as a wizard: introducing a new
> module import when adding a package, only to have that module
> moved/renamed before pushing your change.  I suppose it is a corner
> case, but it did happen to me recently, in 2e3f18511, which 宋文武
> kindly fixed in 19b2ea1b6. The problem was that between the time I
> originally packaged tomb and the time I pushed the commit,
> gnu/packages/zsh.scm was consolidated into gnu/packages/shells.scm.  I
> had done a `make clean-go && make` before pushing, as I always do, but
> since clean-go didn't remove gnu/packages/zsh.go the subsequent `make`
> didn't complain of a missing module.

Indeed, that’s happened to me before.

> From ffe1710d5a91cd9906f2419d21944b1375b1b842 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Bavier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:31:41 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] build: clean-go: warn about stray .go files.
>
> * Makefile.am (clean-go): Warn of .go files remaining in builddir.

LGTM, thank you!

Ludo’.