Update go version and possible bug

[gaming-hacker (G Alexander)]

Hello, Latest stable version is 1.16.3 portfile has 1.16.1

also why does build 1.16.1 depend upon old version 1.4 for non ARM?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

go was updated to 1.16.3 23 days ago. Run sudo port selfupdate to receive this and other updates.

You mustn't include the @ symbol before the GitHub username when filling out the Cc field.

[herbygillot (Herby Gillot)]

You are misunderstanding how the Portfile for Go works.

In order to build Golang, you require a Go compiler because Go is written in Go.

But in a pure MacPorts environment, you are only starting with a C/C++ compiler.

Go 1.4 is the most recent version of Go that can be built using only a C compiler.

So for x86_64, we build Go 1.4 first, *then* use Go 1.4 to build the most recent version of Go, which as of right now is 1.16.3 as @ryandesign said.

For arm64, Go 1.4 is not available. Therefore we take a different approach, and use an official pre-built Arm64 Go installation to build an Arm64-native build of the latest Go for MacPorts.

The pre-built version is 1.16.1, and we then use it to build the latest version (again 1.16.3). The version of the pre-built compiler does not really matter.

In all cases for both x86_64 and arm64, MacPorts is building the latest version of Go.

[gaming-hacker (G Alexander)]

Thanks, I'm not a huge user of Go but I need to hack it sometimes.

Please close ticket.

[herbygillot (Herby Gillot)]

As an update here, we are now using the same latest version of Go for the pre-built version that we use for ARM64.

Closing this ticket.

[herbygillot (Herby Gillot)]

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/cf6e851abcc69c8bf3b39b83d802812906f6ce57