Minimum golang version required?

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I’m trying to update Hugo on my Solaris 11 system, which has golang v1.7. I successfully built v0.18 last year but now when I try to build git master via

$ go get -u -v github.com/gohugoio/hugo

I get these failures:

github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib
# github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib
/home/jmcp/gocode/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/page_bundler_handlers.go:239: undefined: sort.SliceStable
/home/jmcp/gocode/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/site.go:384: s.s.Deps.PathSpec.BaseURL.URL().Port undefined (type *url.URL has no field or method Port)

I’m not up to speed with Go itself just yet, so I’m unsure whether these failures are a result of not using golang 1.9, or some other reason.

I would really appreciate your clue-ing me in about this.

Thankyou in advance,
James

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You can just update to the now-latest go 1.9.3… it’s a matter of simply:

  1. Downloading the go archive for your platform.
  2. Extracting to ~/go (or your path of choice), and have the PATH and GOROOT set correctly.
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Thankyou for your reply, but you haven’t really answered my question :expressionless:

Solaris 11 doesn’t have Go 1.9 yet so I can’t just download it and get started.

Perhaps I should rephrase the question: what is the oldest version of Hugo that will build with Go v1.7 ?

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To compile it you need >= Go 1.8. We have a “last two versions” policy.

But note that file watching (in hugo server) currently does not work on Solaris. There is an open issue about it.

To find a Go 1.7 friendly version, you will have to find the version before we started to use sort.Slice (new in Hugo 1.8) – or look at the Go 1.8 release date and pick one Hugo version around that time.

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Ah, the old n-2 – we use that model for Solaris development too :slight_smile:
I’ll prod our golang maintainer and see what we can get happening.

Thankyou!

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If you work in a “Solaris shop” you can maybe add some weight to getting this fixed:

With that fixed we can produce Hugo binaries for Solaris.

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My “Solaris Shop” is in fact Oracle’s Systems division. I’m well aware of the fsnotify thing and have been doing what I can to get that fixed. Long, sloooooow process.

jmcp

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