tree f16472b030fbf77c0d15c37a2c88b5fd43394c07
parent ea18a1c2126e5e94924f7f68771fd49876fa7d3a
author Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com> 1574263183 -0500
committer Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com> 1574436743 +0000

misc/cgo/testcarchive: avoid writing to GOROOT in tests

Also add a -testwork flag to facilitate debugging the test itself.

Three of the tests of this package invoked 'go install -i
-buildmode=c-archive' in order to generate an archive as well as
multiple C header files.

Unfortunately, the behavior of the '-i' flag is inappropriately broad
for this use-case: it not only generates the library and header files
(as desired), but also attempts to install a number of (unnecessary)
archive files for transitive dependencies to
GOROOT/pkg/$GOOS_$GOARCH_shared, which may not be writable — for
example, if GOROOT is owned by the root user but the test is being run
by a non-root user.

Instead, for now we generate the header files for transitive dependencies
separately by running 'go tool cgo -exportheader'.

In the future, we should consider how to improve the ergonomics for
generating transitive header files without coupling that to
unnecessary library installation.

Updates #28387
Updates #30316
Updates #35715

Change-Id: I3d483f84e22058561efe740aa4885fc3f26137b5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/208117
Run-TryBot: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>