Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 06:38:53PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Yes, it should be statically linked.  Isn't it the same issue as we recently 
> had
> with go-1.11 itself?
> 
> The fix was
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>            ;; Prevent installation of the build cache, which contains store
>            ;; references to most of the tools used to build Go and would
>            ;; unnecessarily increase the size of Go's closure if it was
>            ;; installed.
>            ;; TODO This should be moved into the 'install' phase when Go 1.9 
> is
>            ;; removed.
>            (add-before 'install 'delete-extraneous-files
>              (lambda _
>                (delete-file-recursively "../pkg/obj")
>                #t))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> We should try that.

I can try it now.

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