We don't have the tooling to package golang stuff in EPEL8 yet, I have requested it from RHEL folks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774139 but I don't know how much time this will take.

I will try to package it the old way but I'm not sure if it will work.

Ive got a SPEC ready to roll: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=39634751
I'm waiting for the scm request to be approved and you'll get your package.

(In reply to Robert-André Mauchin from comment #2)
> Ive got a SPEC ready to roll:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=39634751
> I'm waiting for the scm request to be approved and you'll get your package.

That's great! Thanks!

I have set up a buildroot override so you should be able to build now.

xe-guest-utilities failed to build with 'missing function body' errors:

# golang.org/x/sys/unix
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_linux_amd64_gc.go:13:6: missing function body
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_linux_gc.go:10:6: missing function body
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_linux_gc.go:14:6: missing function body
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:12:6: missing function body
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:13:6: missing function body
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:14:6: missing function body
/usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:15:6: missing function body

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/9898/39679898/build.log

The assembly files are missed in the el8 package?

golang-x-sys-0-0.29.20191215gitac6580d.el8 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
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(In reply to Robin Lee from comment #5)
> xe-guest-utilities failed to build with 'missing function body' errors:
> 
> # golang.org/x/sys/unix
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_linux_amd64_gc.go:13:6:
> missing function body
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_linux_gc.go:10:6:
> missing function body
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_linux_gc.go:14:6:
> missing function body
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:12:6: missing
> function body
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:13:6: missing
> function body
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:14:6: missing
> function body
> /usr/share/gocode/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/syscall_unix_gc.go:15:6: missing
> function body
> 
> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/9898/39679898/build.log
> 
> The assembly files are missed in the el8 package?

Woops made a typo in the find command for assembly files, should be fixed now.

xe-guest-utilities now compiled. But the debuginfo failed to generate. Do I have to use a different GO_FLAGS on EPEL8? The current version is:

make PRODUCT_MAJOR_VERSION=%{upstream_major} \
     PRODUCT_MINOR_VERSION=%{upstream_minor} \
     PRODUCT_MICRO_VERSION=%{upstream_micro} \
     RELEASE=%{buildnum} \
     GO_FLAGS='-a -ldflags "${LDFLAGS:-}%{?currentgoldflags} -B 0x$$(head -c20 /dev/urandom|od -An -tx1|tr -d '"'"' \n'"'"') -extldflags '"'"'%__global_ldflags %{?__golang_extldflags}'"'"'" -v -x'

build.log: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/2374/39692374/build.log

Yeah slight change that we fixed in Fedora but I don't recall how. First we had to disable DWARF compression because rpm didn't support it but we re enabled it later.

For now add: -compressdwarf=false to the flags.

make PRODUCT_MAJOR_VERSION=%{upstream_major} \
     PRODUCT_MINOR_VERSION=%{upstream_minor} \
     PRODUCT_MICRO_VERSION=%{upstream_micro} \
     RELEASE=%{buildnum} \
     GO_FLAGS='-a -ldflags "${LDFLAGS:-}%{?currentgoldflags} -B 0x$$(head -c20 /dev/urandom|od -An -tx1|tr -d '"'"' \n'"'"') -extldflags '"'"'%__global_ldflags %{?__golang_extldflags}'"'"' -compressdwarf=false" -v -x'

I'll ask Jakub Čajka <jcajka> how we solved this. I think this was fixed in rpm 4.15 but the fix was reverted since.

golang-x-sys-0-0.29.20191215gitac6580d.el8.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-713c93d7dc

golang-x-sys-0-0.29.20191215gitac6580d.el8.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.