Re: GO on macOS Monterrey

[Adam <adam%netbsd.org@localhost>]

> Has anyone looked into the possibility of using a newer GO package than 1.4 for bootstrapping?  Apparently go 1.10 and earlier depend on a kernel feature that has been removed from Monterrey.
> 
> go/build
> cmd/go
> fatal error: runtime: bsdthread_register error
> 
> runtime stack:
> runtime.throw(0x3ea895)
>        /Users/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/go14/src/runtime/panic.go:491 +0xad fp=0x7ff7bfefe390 sp=0x7ff7bfefe360
> runtime.goenvs()
>        /Users/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/go14/src/runtime/os_darwin.c:104 +0x70 fp=0x7ff7bfefe3a8 sp=0x7ff7bfefe390
> runtime.schedinit()
>        /Users/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/go14/src/runtime/proc.c:144 +0x5f fp=0x7ff7bfefe3d0 sp=0x7ff7bfefe3a8
> runtime.rt0_go(0x7ff7bfefe408, 0x4, 0x7ff7bfefe408, 0x0, 0x1000, 0x4, 0x7ff7bfefe880, 0x7ff7bfefe8d0, 0x7ff7bfefe8d6, 0x7ff7bfefe8d9, ...)
>        /Users/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/go14/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:95 +0x116 fp=0x7ff7bfefe3d8 sp=0x7ff7bfefe3d0
> *** Error code 2

You have to install lang/go-bin and add

GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=	${LOCALBASE}/go-bin

to your mk.conf.

Kind regards,
Adam